Between Heaven and Earth (part 4, the murderous plot)

              Plot

           The plot in "Between Heaven and Earth" was good and it was pieced together nicely in my opinion. The characters in the story helped create the structure of the plot because the author used their beliefs and strengths to combine a better understanding of the characters. The author changes the way the main characters think by the end of the book and I think using that strategy is good because if someone wrote a book and at the end, the character does not achieve anything, then nobody is going to read it because the reader can predict what the character will do next, and repeating something usually bores a person. If, in a book, a person goes on a quest and 300 pages later, slays a dragon and the way the character thinks still is the same, then nobody will like it because the character travels across *example* distant lands, destroys an evil tower and drops a ring of doom into lava and learns completely nothing in the process; it is impossible.

            The author changes the way the characters think by using other "tool characters" to utilize this process. Tool characters are minor characters that are used by the author to help create the plot. Doris is one of these tool characters. Doris is an old frail lady who believes that she can climb Mount Kilimanjaro, despite her age. The main character, DJ, first looks at her as a stupid lady. But after many hikes, Doris shows no defeat and DJ then looks at Doris as a figure of courage. After that, DJ starts to think differently, using Doris as an example to stay hiking, even when he wants to give up. The whole plot was based on this strategy and I think it is a good one. DJ also looked at Sarah's determination, and used her example to carry on.