Inkheart Character Analysis

The main characters in Inkheart faced major conflicts, but resolved the problem. The major conflict that Meggie and Mo faced was when Capricorn held Meggie in captivity and made her read a monster out of Inkheart to kill Dustfinger and Resa. It is resolved by the author of Inkheart, Fenoglio, who writes a different ending of Inkheart in order for the monster to kill only Capricorn. For example, it states, “Fenoglio impatiently tapped the sheets of paper on her lap. ‘I’ve written him a new story with a happy ending. That was your father’s idea: changing what happens in stories!’... ‘I have finished!’ he snapped, irritated. ‘I’ve finished a dozen times already, but I’m not happy with it.’…’There are so many questions. Suppose the Shadow turns

Indeed, he wanted revenge…So, the Shadow went to his master and reached out to him with ashen hands…And Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who had gone burning and murdering with him disappeared—blown away like ashes in the wind.’…There stood the Shadow…his whole figure disintegrated, and suddenly they were all bagck again, all the beings from whose ashes the Shadow had been made…They woke as if from bad dream and, at last, everything was all right again.” These quotes show how Fenoglio changed the way the story ended by killing Capricorn, destroying the Shadow after it killed Capricorn, and some of Capricorn’s men disappearing. The main characters in Inkheart faced major conflicts, but resolved the