Authors Note: I’m writing my character analysis piece on Matt from the Raven’s Gate series because his progress in changing is very interesting throughout this series.
Change, everyone goes through it, even adults, or even kids with supernatural powers like Matt. Matt is a part of something bigger than anything else in the world, but yet only few have knowledge about it. His one of the five trying to keep the Old Ones from coming back into our world. Throughout his journey he never wants any part of what’s going on. He just wants to try to live a normal life as a normal kid, but with powers and a responsibility like his he can’t and he soon changes his attitude and realizes what his to be done.
There are many different types of people on this planet and some of them would jump at the chance to be a hero and help save lives, but then also theres the few people that don’t want any part of it. That’s the kind of person that Matt is, he doesn’t want his power, he doesn’t want to be able to break things with his mind of anything like that. He just wants to be normal and he hasn’t realized what is fully at stake with the opening of the gates.
Reading this book you may have a difficult time trying to find out when Matt changes his attitude because it happens so sudden, but on Pg.273 the narrator points out that, “A short time ago, in England, he hadn’t even wanted to go to Peru. But since then, everything has changed.” This really shows that he’s starting to grow up and realize that he can’t choose whether or not he goes with o this and helps. He really starts to take passion in what’s going on since more than a couple people have died trying to save him or help him. He ends up hating who did this and wants to kill him.
Later in the series when Matt is 15, he has already gone through so much horror that anybody would wish to wake up to it all being a dream. Matt has already assumed the role of the leader and his want to kill and his hatred for the old ones drive him. In a little more than a year Matt has gone through not wanting to take any part of it and wanting to just live a normal life. He doesn't just realize that he doesn't have a choice, his attitude for all this changes and he wants to save the world, he wants to defeat the old ones, and he wants to be the leader. Some things change you drasticly like with trauma or a little change like losing someone in your life. I don't think there is anyone who has changed more than Matt in this book. Matt is turning into that person that encourages everyone on, he leads and he leads well.
For a 14 year old boy Matt is pretty grown up, any 14 year old would have to be grown up if he is fighting to save the planet. But not many people would be excited to do this. For a while Matt and Richard, his friend, didn’t even want to go to Peru to help keep the second gate from opening and even refused a bit. But now as the narrator stated Matt has changed and knows that what he is doing has to be done. That he has no choice to accept it and do it. Matt really grows up in this series and changes for the better
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