Trust In Lord Of The Shadows By Darren Shan

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In life people will being to be your friend and you will be able to gain their trust or you will think you gained their trust or you will just be deceived. Trust is a firm belief in the truth of someone or something. Deception is being tricked to believe or do something to gain a personal advantage. In the novel Lord Of The Shadows by Darren Shan is being told that he is gaining multiple people's trust but throughout history has shown multiple have deceived him and is now suspicious if all these are are actually trustworthy or trying to deceive him. People that Darren that he trusted that deceived him is Darius Shan, Steve “Leopard” Leonard, and R.V.(Reggie Veggie/Righteous Vampaneze). Darren has strong memories of these 3 people throughout …show more content…

Him and Darren were in multiple books and were close friends through all of them. You first meet Darius in the first book, he gets introduced as a villain but shortly is told be a broken man that needs help. Later into the books Steve talks and tricks him to make Darren look like a bad guy. This makes Darius a untrustworthy friend because most of the information that Steve told Darius was false and was bribed for power and fame, which makes Darius a bad friend that thirsts for fame and power . "You see, Darren," Steve purred, winking at me before vanishing down the tunnel to freedom, "if you kill Darius, you won't just be slaughtering my son, you'll be murdering your nephew!" ( Shan,220). This quote puts Darius and in a very confused and stressed time. Before the quote was said Darius and Steve planned for this to happen so that Steve can finish a plan he was working on while Darren is confused if he should kill him nor not. This is shown that Darius is not Trustworthy and how he deceived his own best friend for a bad …show more content…

or called Reggie Veggie. He was a former friend of Darren. He was a very good and trustworthy friend that is sensitive about animal rights. In the novel he is a very strong man but can easily be manipulated and tricked for money, but after Darren killed a wolf man that was attacking him R.V. got very mad because he thought he killed a normal wolf, even though it was not a normal wolf it was a wolf man and later tries to kill Darren multiple times, but ends up being forced to leave or he is gonna be killed and later joins Steve’s side in evil, but always tries to leave abut is always scared to leave because Steve’s crew might kill him if he leaves and Darren might not want him back in his crew after what happened.
In the near future you see how Darren sends a couple of his friends to spy in him and found out that he really is not that evil, he just pretends to be very evil to have power and to not be shown as a weak person. That is how R.V. has changed to be a great friend of Darren to an enemy that it is his goal to kill Darren and become

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