Struggles of Harold Kline

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In the novel Ghost Boy, by Iain Lawrence, the author explores the negative results of growing up, and difficult, especially when it is a struggle to figure out one’s true identity. Harold Kline is an albino. He is mad fun of by other children and called Ghost Boy. His mother remarries after his father and his brother are killed in World War II, and he finds that the man his mother married is cruel and mean. Harold wishes that he fit somewhere, that there would be a place for him. Which then he runs away to the circus and he develops his maturity by roman, conflicts and his success of training the elephants to play baseball then he return home then he finds out the his identity firmly based on who truly is rather than just what he looks like. Maturity is the result of identity based on truth rather than false perception is supported and developed through the narrative elements, character conflict and setting in the novel. Firstly, the protagonist Harold Kline and other characters he had developed friendship with provide proves to influence the theme of true identity resulting in maturity. Harold establishes his deficiency of maturity at the commencement of the novel when he escapes because his identity is based completely on outer visual aspect and his albinism. The Rattlesnake River fishing and later when he insights a snakeskin, Harold thoughts of shedding his “show-white skin […] and stepping from it tanned and dark” (47). Harold does not like the way he looks like and he is brainwashed believing that his identity and how people treat him comes only from his looks and not from who he is on the inside. It was very immature, and false hypothesis that keeps him from discovering out who he really is and being confident in that. Harold also interacts with other characters that have optimistic identities based on truth that encourage him to mature and find his true

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