A Character Analysis Of Nando In The Red Plane Crash

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Nando was a quiet boy at the beginning of the story, and was not one of the more popular guys on the team. But after he is back in civilization for awhile, he becomes a new man. He was seen partying everyday, meeting new girls, and even began racing cars professionally. The crash changed him drastically, but no in the way everyone expected. While some of the survivors were psychologically unstable after the incident, he acted like never happened, and I’m going to Summarize.

Broken down by the loss in the Andes, Nando had to fill an enormous void that had been filled with past loved ones. The loss of his sister, Susy, a few days into the crash was a defining blow on him emotionally, though it didn’t seem that it was, considering how he had
At one point when Nando and a few others were returning from a failed attempt to repair the radio at the tail of the plane, Nando showed relentless and excessive anger towards Ray because Ray was already weak from the trekt to the tail and the efforts to fix the radio. The trek back was exhausting in the blinding snowstorm that struck quite suddenly. Eventually Roy stopped and Nando was angered by this and peppered Roy with cuss words, kicking him savagely, before climbing on top of him, where he battered him with hard punches. Nando the stated that the source of his anger was Roy showing him his future. Nando broke something emotionally inside himself and was changed
In the beginning of the chaos Nando’s closest friends and family members were ripped away leaving a gaping hole in his heart that had to be filled with something. It woud either be filled with despair or hope and thankfully it was filled with the hope of seeing and comforting his father. Once he finally arrived to see his father, he was filled with great happiness, as was his dad. Nando eventually returned to his normal routine, but with so much loss and such a large void, he filled it with partying and relationships that were shallow and temporary. He persued a car racing career that was quite successful and he ultimatley went on to compete in European races. This pursuit led him to meet a young woman named Veronique, who later became his wife. He became a real person again when returned to his home city, settled down, and raised a family. Nando did not seem to suffer the loss in the mountains because while partying …………...

because he was lost and alone, he tried to fix his pain with the wrong things. Nando is now a person, who is close to the one on the plane, but he will never be able to get over the loss of his closest friends and family, while eating other people as meat

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