William Paul Young's Eve Character Analysis

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An artistic flow of events and a powerful message that will challenge your traditional beliefs are exactly what you’ll find in the story of Eve. Eve, a novel by author William Paul Young, is a telling story about a young girl named Lilly who becomes washed ashore aboard a shipping container and found by a man known as John the Collector. Lilly is discovered to have suffered countless internal injuries, have broken bones, be partly frozen, and is ultimately just lucky to be alive. Soon after having been rescued from the scene, she is taken promptly to visit the Healers and Scholars in a near desperate effort to keep her from death. Eventually she regains consciousness, and as one would, she had a multitude of questions, but there was only one …show more content…

An intriguing aspect of this novel is how the author, Young, decided to develop and portray the characters, the main character being Lilly herself, and the side characters of John, Simon, Anita, Gerald, Letty, Eve, Adam, and Adonai. Young decides to narrate the story in a third person limited perspective only giving the reader access to the ideas and events that involve Lilly, and by doing so he cuts off the reader from knowing much of anything about the other characters involved. By the conclusion of the novel only three characters are truly revealed, such as their backgrounds, ideas, and emotions, and this is only because they are a vital facet to the plot of the narrative; the only information unveiled about the others is who they are and why they’re there. Young decided to use this technique of limited …show more content…

This emptiness allows for a clean slate of items to unfold, Lilly, since she is tremendously injured, must rely entirely on someone she has never met before in her life to take care of her, nurture her, and tell her anything they can about who she is and she must believe them because she doesn’t have any inclination otherwise. Throughout nearly the entire story she has to be told who she is and where she is and what she is there for, and it’s impossible to decipher lies from the truth. Lilly must trust immensely on the people around her for guidance on how to become the Witness of Beginnings, and she doesn’t even know what the witness is, just she is the witness and that’s that. In time, Lilly reaches a point where she has the option to trust and put her faith in what Adonai has told her, or she can defy him and take the power in her own hands; she holds the freedom to stay with love and faith, or turn to power and herself. Within this moment, Young conveys a touching message of trust; trust is what got her to that moment and what has given light to all the good that has happened to her, but it was so easy to take and rely on herself and acquire all the power. She wanted to be in control and understand why her, the entire time, but when the dream became a reality she began to question whether knowing by yourself is really that

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