The Body Finder Character Analysis

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Have you ever seen a dead body? Not many people have, but in The Body Finder Violet does nothing but see them. Violet sees “the girl’s face staring up from beneath the soil” (Derting 4) Ever since Violet has been discovering every dead thing that came across her path. Eventually a serial killer has made its home in her town. Violet has a drive to find the killer to give these girls peace. Violet would give her life to find this killer. She has a drive that no one else can understand. Kimberly Derting is trying to teach us that having a drive is needing to have determination, a need to succeed at any cost. In The Body Finder, Violet is very torn from her feelings and even more in her secret power. Though with this power comes a “Pulling sensation, the tugging that propelled her almost without her awareness” (Derting 59-60). Violets pull can be related to almost everyone. A pull to food, to succeeding. Everyone has their guilty pleasure; Violet’s pulls to the dead are the same thing. No one understands her pull, but it’s drawing her. Violet’s character is strong, independent and determined. Derting is trying to teach us to go for that pull, this can lead someone to success. Though the drive Derting is trying to teach us about can also lead to failure …show more content…

The thing Violet would never think she’d “See if [she could] get a feeling for who this guy is […] You can’t stop me, Jay. […] But I swear to you that every chance I get, even if I have to sneak out of the house to do it, I will be trying to find him” (Derting 113-114) Everyone has done risky decisions, taking a new job, or even saying something against authority. Violets even going searching for a seral killer. There’s risk in everything we do. Violets trying to reach a goal, she’s doing something risky and risk comes with fear of the future. The author wants us to get a scared feeling, a powerful feeling, an intense

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