In the book, Nightfall, authored by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski, a story takes place on an island called Bliss. There are fourteen years of day and fourteen years of night. When the sun begins to set and the earth and its island prepare for a period of darkness the settlers of Bliss make preparations as well as rituals before the sunsets to sail away to the south to were the desserts are which provide the new home while the darkness lasts. Among the settlers are three teenage people. Marin a twin sister to Kana and Line who seems to be Marin’s lover. In the preparing to leave Bliss, Line has gone missing and only Marin and Kana know where he is. They go and find him successfully but only return to find that they didn't make it back in time. As a result they …show more content… Line was one of the three characters who encounters a creature and is forced to go into a instinct of kill or be killed. He quickly forgets all his worries and learns quickly that in this new environment he must be willing to be mentally and morally strong in order to withstand the cloaked island and its emerging inhabitants. Here on a climb down a cliff Line combats a creature. “ But then he caught a glimpse of it. Something was moving down the cliff. He was at the top of the seam, before it opened up into the chimney. He froze against the wall. He needed to find a better defensive position, but where? The chimney, of course. However, the seam that he was climbing angled downward and did not open into the chimney for another eight feet. The noise from overhead was getting louder. He didn't have time to inch his way along. Instincts kicked in. I have to move. Now (Halpern & Kujawinski pg.177).” In this scene the reader is shown a situation where the authors force the character Line to act quickly and without hesitation. His life was on the line and his life depended on Show More
