Caring Characterization of Wanderer
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sincerity makes her unable to leave him. Thus, her sincere heart urges her to stand beside him. She cannot let Walter suffers alone.
Wanderer‘s tribe is known to be very polite and kind. Her culture teaches the souls to treat others as positively as possible. This manner
continues when she lives with human in the caves who in the beginning hates her. On the contrary, she sincerely helps them to raid.
―Getting tired of shopping yet, Wanda?‖ Ian asked me. ―No. I don‘t mind it.‖
―You always say that. Isn‘t that anything you mind?‖ ―I mind…being away from Jamie.‖ 2013: 635-636
As Murphy st ated that ―the author present some hints to character whenever a
person in conversation with anoth er or state opinion‖ 1972: 164. Through
the conversation above, it can be said that Wanderer is a sincere soul. She sincerely helps the humans do the shopping. Shopping here means the raid.
Humans there have to raid from time to time to fulfill their basic needs such as food, water, clothes, medicine, and household tools. The raid turns into regular
shopping since Wanderer join in. She easily gets all their needs in the public store without suspicion, as she goes there to do casual shopping. Her sincerity
makes she does her best to make people around her comfortable. Ian, another character that has conversation with Wanderer; is curious why she is so
sincere. Her sincerity is exceptional according to him because she often gets bad treatment by the humans. She join the raid although it may endanger her
life because the Seekers is always around. Thus, she does helpful things to human, simply because she has sincere heart.
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Wanderer always considers doing sincere things. Her reactions toward critical situation between life and death do not bend her to sincerely
help others, including Kyle, a man that wants to kill her. As Murphy stated that the author ―gives a hint to the characterization by how the character reacts
to particular si tuations and events‖ 1972: 168. Wanderer sincerely helps
Kyle to survive from drowning as seen in quotation below. He‘s going to fall, I realized.
Good, Melanie snarled. But…
If he falls, he can’t kill us, Wanda. If he doesn’t fall, he will.
I can‘t just… Yes, you can. Walk away. Don’t you want to live?
I did. I wanted to live. Kyle could disappear. And if he did, there was a chance that no one
would ever hurt me again. At least not among the people here. There was still the Seeker to consider, but maybe she would give up
someday, and then I could stay here indefinitely with the humans I
loved…. I stared at the face of the man who was about to die
—the man who wanted me dead. With him
unconscious, Kyle‘s face was no longer that of an angry animal. It was relaxed, almost peaceful.
Just as I thought that, a large chunk of rock plummeted into the river, and Kyle‘s precarious balance was overthrown. He began to fall.
―No‖ I screamed, the siren bursting from my throat again. I flattened myself against the column and managed to pin him to the other side,
locking my hands around his wide chest. My arms ached.
―Help me‖ I shrieked. ―Somebody Help‖ 2013: 450-451 Her reactions shows her that she cannot let him just die. She is a sincere soul
because she manages to help her ―killer‖ with all she can do. She helps Kyle without fear to accidentally drown. Her reaction help Kyle to be safe not only
from drowning but also from falling rocks. Thus, Wanderer understands that by sincerely helping Kyle, she prevents more injuries to his body. She cannot
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let him just die although she is hurt by him. Her sincerity is not only for her friends but also for people who hurt her.
Wanderer‘s sincerity is also described when she succeess to get soul‘s medicines to save Jamie from his wound. He can die if Wanderer does not
insist to go raid immediately. I nodded. ―Yes. Its easy for me. I know what they expect.‖ I laughed
briefly to myself. ―Im one of them. If you trusted me, I could probably get you anything in the world you wanted.‖ I laughed again.
It was just the stress fading, making me giddy. But it was funny to me. Did he realize that I would do exactly that for him? Anything in
the world he wanted. Anything for them, I told her, and then I sighed, because it was so
true. 2013: 616
From the quotation above, it can be said that Wanderer‘s sincerity is reflected through her opinion and conversation with Jared. As Murphy stated that the
author present some hints to character ―whenever a person in conversation
with anoth er or state opinion‖ 1972: 164. Wanderer gives her best to do
anything that she can do to help human. She will struggle very hard to give what they want. Her sincerity pushes her to help them although they may
distrust and hate them. She proves that she truly cares for them by helping them to obtain supplies.