Inkdeath: Character Description #1

Although there are many main characters, the first I will describe is Meggie Folchart, the daughter of Mo and Resa. Meggie has fair skin and hair like spun gold. She doesn’t like to show weakness, and she doesn’t forgive easily, except her father of course. She is extremely brave and has faced death more than once. She loves to read and has the unusual ability to read characters out from between the pages. She’s also read herself into the Inkworld, and saved her father with words that Fenoglio – the author of Inkheart – written for her. She is in love with Farid, but she is tired of Farid always putting Dustfinger – his idol – above her.
She doesn’t change her mind easily, and she is very determined to do what’s right. She wants to protect her father, but he is determined to play the part of The Bluejay. Resa, her mother, wants to go back to their world, but Meggie is not sure, because Farid will most certainly stay. Meggie just wants her father back, because she feels that when Mo is The Bluejay, he is not her father.
Meggie feels that Farid is drifting away, and so she starts responding to the attention of Doria, a boy at the robbers’ camp, where they are staying. Farid notices, but it is too late; Meggie has fallen in love with Doria. Meggie was tired of being loved by a boy who loved someone else more than her, and who always would, so she decided to be with someone who would treat her well.
Meggie keeps a level head, and more often than not makes the right decision. She is very clever, and has a beautifully clear voice, that she uses to change characters’ fates and what world they are in.
Meggie is different from other main characters in this book because, first of all she’s the youngest, but also because she’s selfless. She always tries to help other people. She is kind and very sweet.
I think Meggie’s goal is to save her father – he is captured, to help kill The Adderhead, and to restore peace to the Inkworld. A very hefty list as Mo is very far away, The Adderhead is immortal, and the Inkworld is in turmoil.
Meggie changes a lot during the course of the book. She becomes more grown up, and I feel that she learns a lot about right, wrong, love, and life.