The Forest of Hands and Teeth

     The exciting novel that I chose to read was titled, The Forest of Hamds and Teeth, a book about a young girl who lives within a gated community that is protected from the outside infected world. Mary is throughout the entire book the main focus of the story. Given the sad conditions in which many of the people in the community live Mary still managed to be caring and a very loving young girl. Throughout the story Mary’s only focus was the love she had for the stories her mother told her about the ocean out in the world. She is most definitely a static character, since the ocean was her only interest and that remained the same throughout the book. The love she had for the ocean was something much bigger than even the love she felt for her family members. Love was indeed an important quality of her’s, but even though she felt it for her family, it would always take second place to her love for seeing the ocean. Besides her being loving and caring she also has a lot of determination in her. Mary knew that she wasn’t someone who was meant to stay inside the community, but as time passed she put up with that and faced some really hard things, which did not stop her determination to leave her home and go to the unforbidden outside. Her determination is what pretty much made me like her very much as a character. She knew all along that her only purpose was to see that beautiful ocean that she had never in life seen before, and she didn’t care if it meant risking her life because it had such an important meaning to what her life was like all along.