Jacob Portman Character Analysis

Jacob Portman represents tenacity by continuously fighting to find out what happened to his grandfather. In Chapter Two, Jacob explains to the audience, “....convincing my parents to let me spend part of my summer on a tiny island off the coast of Wales was no easy task.” (Riggs, 65). He believed something more happened to his grandfather than what was said and he desperately wanted to investigate Grandpa Portman’s final words. He eventually found out the truth about his grandfather’s death, his last words, and his history in later chapters. The main character demonstrates curiosity by going to the house where his grandfather grew up after he left Poland. He dug through debris to find any sort of evidence to help understand