Describing Adam

Authors Note: This short description is about the main character Adam and what part he plays in the story.

There are many words to convey the seventeen year old main character Adam in the story of Hero’s Don’t Run. If you ask his family they will tell you that he is a tall, strong boy, very kind. But you might also hear that he arrogant. Like most teenagers he believes that he is invincible, that nothing can hurt him.
In his family between his sister and him, he is the oldest. His father had died during the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War 2. To his family he is pretty much the man in his house. Like his dad he wants to join the military to fight in the war. His mom and grandpa strongly advise him to not join the war but he ends up persuading his grandpa to sign him up. Adam signing up to fight in the war is a big event in the story. He is not as afraid of the war as he should be. However throughout the book his opinion does change on the war. Towards the middle of the book he starts to notice that he is not invincible and that fighting in the war was a much bigger decision than he thought it out to be. The war shapes him to be more of a man than he was in the beginning of the story.