No Easy Way Out Character Analysis
I am reading No Easy Way Out by Dayna Lorentz. I have read pages 150-341 this week. The prompt I have chosen this week is “How a character’s traits affect the story.”
A way Marco’s traits affect the story is how Marco is clever. Marco has a big reputation of being a street-smart person, and it definitely showed throughout the entire book. From using a baby monitor to spy on government officials, and to being the first citizen to escape the mall during the disease crisis, Marco is no amateur in having a plan for everything. His most iconic moment so far, however, is how he was able to hide from a swarm of police in the city without any sort of weapon or vehicle. It was his wits and quick-thinking that saved himself and Shay from being caught. Quotes to support this are on page 239: “I jumped down from the balcony onto the roof of the bank, and laid down, motioning for Shay to do the same. We were still unnoticed.” And on page 255: “‘How in the hell did you do that? Shay managed to get out as she tried to catch her breath. ‘Wherever you go, be aware of your surroundings. You most of the time won’t need it, but trust me, one time, you will.’” What this means is that if you replace Marco with your average human in a lot of these situations, and you will find yourself with a disaster of a plan. Without Marco’s intelligence, Shay and his friends would without a doubt be one of three things: dead, caught, or incredibly ill. His smarts …show more content…
Without Marco in the story, it would be near impossible for the other characters to in reality actually survive. He has done so much and saved so many lives. Whether it was stopping a criminal or finding out the secret to why the mall was quarantined, Marco was for sure essential to Ryan, Lexi, Shay, and loads of other people’s survival, and overall affected the story without a
A way Marco’s traits affect the story is how Marco is clever. Marco has a big reputation of being a street-smart person, and it definitely showed throughout the entire book. From using a baby monitor to spy on government officials, and to being the first citizen to escape the mall during the disease crisis, Marco is no amateur in having a plan for everything. His most iconic moment so far, however, is how he was able to hide from a swarm of police in the city without any sort of weapon or vehicle. It was his wits and quick-thinking that saved himself and Shay from being caught. Quotes to support this are on page 239: “I jumped down from the balcony onto the roof of the bank, and laid down, motioning for Shay to do the same. We were still unnoticed.” And on page 255: “‘How in the hell did you do that? Shay managed to get out as she tried to catch her breath. ‘Wherever you go, be aware of your surroundings. You most of the time won’t need it, but trust me, one time, you will.’” What this means is that if you replace Marco with your average human in a lot of these situations, and you will find yourself with a disaster of a plan. Without Marco’s intelligence, Shay and his friends would without a doubt be one of three things: dead, caught, or incredibly ill. His smarts …show more content…
Without Marco in the story, it would be near impossible for the other characters to in reality actually survive. He has done so much and saved so many lives. Whether it was stopping a criminal or finding out the secret to why the mall was quarantined, Marco was for sure essential to Ryan, Lexi, Shay, and loads of other people’s survival, and overall affected the story without a