Character Analysis Of Skink No Surrender

Richard is a normal kid living in Florida, one nights he finds an old florida governor on the beach named skink and becomes friends with him. His cousin Malley is being sent off to boarding school in New Hampshire, but Richard finds out shortly that she actually ran off with a stranger she met on the internet named Talbo Chock. Afters days of investigation they still haven 't found her, so Richard then teams up with Skink and begins an chance through Florida 's vast Wilderness.
The theme of the novel Skink no surrender is Friendship can come from the most unlikely places and may help you in the long run. The friendship between a crazy old governor of Florida and a teenager is very unlikely to occur. This crazy friendship then led to the

In the novel Skink No Surrender there is a lot of Character development which helps the plot move. Near the beginning of the novel, when Richards finds out that Malley ran away, Malley threatens him saying., “I’ll tell your mom what happened in Saint Augustine”(Hiaasen 22) This leads us to believe that Richard had done something that would get him in a lot of trouble. This leads us to believe that Richard is a good person but did something wrong at this instance.
Another Character we get to meet in the start of the novel is Skink. We learn that, “A long,long time ago he’d been the governor of Florida.”( Hiaasen 16) and “Then, one day halfway through his term of office, Clint Tyree flat-out disappeared from the governor 's mansion. This adds mystery to Skinks past and makes his character more interesting to follow know that we know his past, making him not just a crazy old man.
Near the middle of the novel when Richard is driving up Florida to find Malley when “I got the shakes. It was a tall brown UPS delivery truck.”(Hiaasen 103) Then Richard explains how his dad died when he crashed into a UPS truck and ever since then he had begun to fear them because it, “...is the last sight dad saw.”(103

In the early stages of the novel Richard finds out,that a “...guy who stole a soldier 's name”(Hiaasen 24), was the one who kidnapped Malley. He then goes on to think that, “He could be a total lowlife.”(Hiaasen 24) This puts a picture in our head that the kidnappers is a crazy person who kidnaps people and kills them.
In a later part of the novel, Richard is describing his step dad and how, “he’s basically terrified of nature.”(Hiaasen 123) This puts an image into our heads that his step dad Trent, is someone who rarely goes out doors and sits around all day. If the author had used the words like,afraid it would not have given the monlong about trent the same feeling as it had with terrified.
In the middle of the novel when Skink and Richard on the River looking for Malley they come across an alligator in which Skink goes to fight. After awhile Skink does not come back leaving him alone. At dawn there was still no skink, “Just me and the dark river rising.”(Hiaasen 131) The words dark river makes you feel that it is just Richard now going to find a crazy person alone. Just using the word river would not give the feeling of saying dark