Character Sketch of Paris | The Lastling

Paris is a 14 year old American girl who came to India with her Uncle Franklin. Her father has divorced her mother and had married to another woman. Paris liked to spend most of her time with uncle Franklin. She is a confident girl, and is sure in whatever she speaks that is one of the reasons why she used to talk to elders straight in the eye because she knew she was not wrong. Tahr thought that Paris was kind because she had persuaded Shikarri and Franklin for letting Tahr live with them on her responsibility. She was the daughter of a millionaire. She was as tall as most men and even taller than the porters. She didn't want to be a girl. The way she spoke, the way she dressed, the way her she used her body language was all so boyish. She and her uncle were used to things going in their own way. She and her uncle were unlike any of the normal people. She didn't took interest in most of the things other people loved to do. She easily got bored and hardly missed someone but she did miss Tahr when he and Geng-Sun left the camp that means there must have been something special in Tahr that a girl like Paris missed him. She was got bored of a school in a week or two. she wanted to be a movie director not like other girls who wanted to be actors, she wanted to control people like her uncle did in his own eerie authoritative way.

Cynical

·                     She didn’t trust anyone, also thought that all of the humans were just like her Uncle Franklin and his group, considering them to be called the deadliest species on the Earth.

Brave

·                     She came to live with strange people in the Himalayas surrounded by Civil War guns and appeared to be really happy in the beginning.

Intelligent

·                     She saw the flaws in her uncle Franklin.

·                     She also learned to be a better human from Tahr and Geng-sun.

·                     She also tricked the guards and distracted everyone to help the yeh-teh escape.

Different from her age group girls

·                     She wanted to be a movie director rather than being a movie star like other girls of her age, she wanted to be the one who calls the shots or be the boss.

Good human being

·                     In the end, she made a tight decision by not following in Uncle Franklin’s footsteps.

·                     She helped out the yeh-teh.

·                     She felt guilty after betraying Tahr.

·                     She wanted to die rather than becoming like Uncle Franklin as she said to Tahr that she should die before she hurts anyone, like her uncle.

Tomboy / restless / full of energy

·                     She was slim and wore shorts all the time.

·                     She kept moving and Tahr couldn’t concentrate on meditating in her presence.

Lonely

·                     She never talked about her parents that they never spent time with her.

·                     And also Tahr said that she wanted her Uncle’s love most of all in the world.

Good friend

·                     She worried about Tahr when he was with the yeh-teh that how he will survive if she left him alone in the jungle.