Ultraviolet Character Analysis
Throughout the whole novel Ultraviolet, which was written by R.J. Anderson, the main character Alison’s assumptions of Dr.Minta, her mom and Tori had changed a lot. She trusted that every person appeared to be the way she could see with her naked eyes at the beginning until Faraday told her “everybody has a story” (Anderson 267). Then she gradually found out that she misunderstood some people around her. During the process of her trying to relearn them, she finally realized that everything she believed was wrong. First of all, Dr.Minta was the first person that Alison had a big change in her perceptions of in the book. Dr.Minta was Alison’s doctor when she first got to Pine Hills. And he didn’t leave Alison with a good first impression
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Alison first met Tori in her seventh-grade class. The readers could know that Tori was a girl with a perfect appearance from Alison's description “I couldn't stand to be around her. Nearly everybody I knew thought she was perfect, but right from the beginning, I sensed something wrong with her” (134). Alison was for sure being jealous of Tori. But her perception of Tori didn't only go wronger because of that. Firstly, Alison thought Tori blamed her to the judges on the Poetry Contest, which made her lost her first place. Secondly, she told the teacher that she saw Tori breaking up the sound equipment of Lara. Lastly, Tori also thought Alison spread nasty rumors about her being adopted, so she questioned Alison and was mad at her. Hence, all these small pieces of misunderstanding between them resulted in a bad perception of Tori. Bute later on, when Alison met Tori again in the Space Station, they eventually had a chance to explain the things that happened to each other. Then Alison exclaimed that “for years, I’d envied Tori her popularity, her accomplishments, her seemingly unassailable self-confidence, only now was I being to realize how fragile all these things had been” (253). With the same age, Alison and Tori had many things they’d shared in common, and while the ‘glacial’ between them melted, the became friends at the
Alison first met Tori in her seventh-grade class. The readers could know that Tori was a girl with a perfect appearance from Alison's description “I couldn't stand to be around her. Nearly everybody I knew thought she was perfect, but right from the beginning, I sensed something wrong with her” (134). Alison was for sure being jealous of Tori. But her perception of Tori didn't only go wronger because of that. Firstly, Alison thought Tori blamed her to the judges on the Poetry Contest, which made her lost her first place. Secondly, she told the teacher that she saw Tori breaking up the sound equipment of Lara. Lastly, Tori also thought Alison spread nasty rumors about her being adopted, so she questioned Alison and was mad at her. Hence, all these small pieces of misunderstanding between them resulted in a bad perception of Tori. Bute later on, when Alison met Tori again in the Space Station, they eventually had a chance to explain the things that happened to each other. Then Alison exclaimed that “for years, I’d envied Tori her popularity, her accomplishments, her seemingly unassailable self-confidence, only now was I being to realize how fragile all these things had been” (253). With the same age, Alison and Tori had many things they’d shared in common, and while the ‘glacial’ between them melted, the became friends at the