David Walker's Gift Character Analysis

David Ponder undergoes a drastic change in The Traveler’s Gift from a depressed man with no belief or hope to a wiser, happier, and more positive man; thus characterizing him as a dynamic character. In the beginning David goes through struggles such as him losing his job and his daughter needing her tonsils taken out. David didn’t know how he would pay for the procedure and on top of that he was depressed and didn’t have a positive outlook on life. David truly believed nothing would get better for him so he tried committing suicide by crashing his car into a tree. David then began to go through a series of dreams that seemed so real to him he was able to travel back to any point in time and to any place in time and he was given the ability