Enchantress From The Stars Character Analysis

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The book “Enchantress from the Stars” by Sylvia Engdahl was an amazing story to read. It did not have just one theme but most apparent theme to me it seemed to have is risking sacrifice. Many of the characters in the novel seem to have to risk and sacrifice something. The story starts with a girl named Elana from a society that watches other planets that have not fully matured. She hides away on her fathers ship and rescue a plant that has been taken over by a civilization that just wants it for it recourses. She begins her adventure by helping a young woodcutter. She gives him all the right tools to save his planet from the invaders. She makes the young boy believe she is an enchantress so she doesn’t give away her more intelligent society. …show more content…

She does it so they don't discover the Federation’s ship it would be dangerous if the imperials found out about there being more advanced civilization. Georyn says that Kevan was the one who killed Ilura with the vaporizer it's on page 25 “what excuse is there for taking off and on that the rise John into the woods and coming back more proud than sorry do I kill the savage native woman.” The savage woman was Ilura when she jumped in front of Kevan. The second example of this team is when Joel sacrifices his career in order to save Georyn. He knows what the consequences are for stunning someone of his own people he still stuns Kevan. He was willing to do this to help them on their quest. “Then without hesitating he pulled out his own stunner and fired not actor Georyn but at the man who in the next instant would have dealt with his strange and unwelcoming phenomenon by vaporizing the native

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