Roo Fanshaw A Dynamic Character

The Humming Room For my “Book Talk Essay” I have chosen the book “The Humming Room.” I have been assigned a prompt stating that I will be discussing how my main character develops throughout the story. I think Roo Fanshaw is a dynamic character because although her attitude remains the same, her interests and feelings change quite drastically. Roo Fanshaw is a fairly private person. This is nothing new considering all the Fanshaws behave this way. Roo was known for her snarky comments and nonchalant attitude, yet she was still quick to temper. She didn’t really care what anyone had to say about her. She was also described as surreptitious multiple times throughout the story. This could also considered a static trait. Roo was dynamic in so many ways. In the beginning when her father died, she didn’t care what anyone had to say, but lately she desperately seeked approval and wanted to hear good things about him. When Roo arrived at the island, she instantly disliked her new home and everyone in it. She soon grew fond of the help (or at least one of the help and the mailman). When she lived with her father they were often on the run from the law, this
Along with the other reasons (previously stated above), she also made friends on the island. She became friends with a boy who she was very intrigued by and yet still very cautious and suspicious of. She grew to like him very much, by the end of the book they were best friends, maybe even more. She also discovered that she not only had this uncle she had never heard of, but he had a son, she had a cousin. She now had two relatives she’d never known. When she first discovered her cousin, locked away in a room all alone, she disliked him very much, but she soon came to tolerate him. Once she learned they shared a common interest (a secret garden hidden away in the house), they became even closer. They were to the point where she even defended him to his father, her