Character Analysis

Through out the story one of the main characters, Barbie, is forcefully thrust into a new situation as he begins to search into the reasons that a giant dome has suddenly encased the whole town. As we follow him around, but continue to switch between characters, we learn a little more about Barbie and his personality. Where I am at in the book, we haven't learned to terribly much about him, but we can still inference things about him. This quote describes part of his personality well, "It was plain old moving on that had lightened him up. He had been walking around under his own little gray cloud for at least two weeks now..." (King 25). I think this quote shows well that he is the drifter type, the type to breeze through town after town and never look back, which also may explain his sadness and implied loneliness. But I think this will start to change as he spends more time trapped in Chester Mills and has to work with others to try and figure out what's going on.