Who Is The Protagonist In Steven James's Blur?

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In the story Blur by the author Steven James, is a suspense filled mystery focused on a single goal of the main characters with unexpected twists and turns. This book gives you a large point of view on the way life is looked at by each of these unique set of characters created by James. It changed my view on how precious one life is and how easily it can be taken away from you.
The main character and protagonist in the story Blur, is Beldon high schools starting quarterback, Daniel Byers. Daniel is just the ordinary high school hotshot, he's praised around school, has tons of friends, and has colleges all over him. When Emily Jackson, a freshman at Beldon high school is found dead in Lake Algonquin, Daniel along with his town are found in …show more content…

The corpse of Emily Jackson appeared to have sat up in her casket speaking Daniel's name and about the glasses he must find. The tattered pale body of Emily and discovery of her broken glasses near the bank of the lake appeared to Daniel as proof her death was more than it was put out to be. This sends Daniel the path to find the truth about Emily Jackson's death. Throughout the book, Byers seems to notice the image of Emily's ghost (Blurs) more often leading him to the assumption that he is plain crazy and going insane. Daniel can never seem to control his Blurs as they seem to happen at the worst possible time, it's almost as if he can't even tell what's happening. Though he seems to have the conscience telling him the scenario speaking to him as if it were a character. Blur is seen in the eyes of Daniel, anything …show more content…

Stacy, never to be seen or heard of by anyone other than Daniel just knew her to be "that new girl Stacy"(pg.31) that they just haven't met yet. Though not important for physical problems in Daniel's lif etimee, Stacy, the perfect creation of Daniel's mind, helps him cope with the problems he has no explanation for. Giving the allusion that someone could possibly understand what Daniel is going through. Stacy giving the excuses she did like, not appearing to Daniel at school and not being able to go with him to the dance, led me personally to see her absence of existence. What appeared as Stacy Clern, the girl Daniel was into was wall just another on of his crazy imaginative

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