In each book, you’ll find a character that changes while the story continues, for good or for bad, or maybe stay the same. This is called characters arcs. The most common type is the positive arc that makes a character become a better or moral person and for today I’m going to be using this to describe the character from Memory of Things named Kyle.
This story begins with fall of the twin towers on the 11th of September of 2001, because two planes crash in a terrorist act, our main character is running to the safety of his home across the Brooklyn Bridge when suddenly he sees something weird and tries to go back a few meters to see it more clearly. He sees what he believes is an angel but at a second glare he sees more clearly and it’s a girl covered in ashes with a costume made wings. She doesn’t remember who she is, what happens, and why she is there, so Kyle takes her to his home and tried to calm down with everything that happens. The story continues, Kyle trying to make the girl remember and founding some hints who might she be. With his father trying to be helpful were the incident happen and his mother and sister at another state without any possibilities to come back soon, he will find a way to get thru this hard time.The two of them get closer but Kyle is finding more clues and learning who she is, every time he got a clue it means that she will have to go sooner.
Kyle thinks he is selfish by not helping the mysterious girl more than he is and hiding some of the clues, at first glance, it seems wrong but the truth is that he is helping her even though he thinks he is not because she doesn’t want to remember.
His deepest emotional wound is that he believes that he will never be as his father and his uncles, strong will, intelligent, and dedicated. His father and uncle (Paul) always tell him to let the music be and that his entire family was firefighters and that he should be one too.
Kyle help this girl pass thru this tough time and take care of his paralyze uncle (Matt) in one of the most delicate time in the United State and still believe he would never be like his father, he always admires him but also have a respectful fear for him, they didn’t talk much often but he knew his dad love him.
At the end, he stands up and thinks different, he knew that he has to let her go, even though it was hard to him; his father told him he was proud of what he has done that week.
