Who Is Midnight Express A Dynamic Character

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After watching the film, Midnight Express, we can say that William Haynes in the movie is a static character. This is because in the very beginning part of the film Haynes was heading back to New York and he was stuffing straps 2 kg (kilograms) of hashish blocks smuggled into his chest. In addition, when we hear his heart beating and see him sweating excessively, it shows how nervous he was that he’s afraid that he will get caught and he had then got arrested and busted by the Turkish airport securities for hiding those drugs and to start emptying and destroying out his bag. For example, we can say that airport securities back then didn’t really provide metal detectors that there would be aircraft hijacking involved and today airport securities

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