How Does Joyce Mcdonald Create Sympathy For Jenna Wife

“Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.”[J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret]. This is exactly the case for Michael Mackenzie who is the main character in the captivating mystery of the book swallowing stones in which Michael, inadvertently, kills Charlie Ward who is the father of Jenna Ward. Throughout this novel, the author Joyce Mcdonald incorporates a variety of character types such as sympathetic, disrespectful, and complex characters.

Of all the characters, I have the most sympathy for Amy because she has gone through a lot and nobody else can really see the real Amy, instead they only see Amy the way rumors and stories say how she is. This is demonstrated throughout

One example of this is one page 63 “...after she’d retreated to her well-ordered sanctuary, working on math problems...Solving math problems cleared her mind; it left no room for anything else. Equations produced only one correct answer. You either got it right or you didn’t. There was no middle ground. No murky gray area to confuse you.” This shows how uniquely Jenna’s mind works and how she can convert the most common topic people usually stress over,and turn it into a coping mechanism for herself. Another example that makes Jenna seem more complex is on page 193 “With each shirt she folded, with each sweater, with every pair of jeans, she found herself saying goodbye. Over and over, the silent goodbyes echoed in her heart, a goodbye to each and every thing, because she had never gotten the chance to say it on that fateful morning in July.” This makes Jenna seem even more complex and makes her perception of ideas even more unique. In this scene, we get to see a little more into how Jenna is slowly getting over her Father’s death. Her authentic view of simple tasks makes her seem more three dimensional than all of the other characters since they don’t perceive stuff the way Jenna does. Just by folding her father’s clothes, she is able to think of it as saying goodbye, rather that simply just putting away his