main characters in shadow of a doubt book

The fact that everyone knows each other plays a huge toll on the novel. The setting appears to me to be in a modern day small rural town where everyone knows each other.

As the story goes on, he learns more about why Daniel ran away and why he didn’t want to return because it’d bring dishonor to his family, especially Shadow, because Daniel knew Shadow looked up to him like a hero.

He doesn’t forgive Daniel that he ran away seven years ago and traumatized his entire immediate family. The entire seven years it was known that Daniel was dead and Shadow doesn’t really know how to react to Daniel’s return. When Shadow’s brother, Daniel, all of a sudden comes back into his life after seven years, it really sets a huge toll on the family. The importance of forgiving is the biggest theme to me in this book. Imagine, your role model missing for seven years and then suddenly comes back into your life after this long gap, you would have some resentment towards that person if they came back and thought everything was supposed to fit in place like how it was before. You want to know more about what happens to Shadow and his family when Daniel returns back into their lives after seven years. Rottman does, is he eggs the reader to keep reading on to find out what will happen next in the book. I would recommend my book to any and every one but most specifically to teenagers because adolescence years are the most troubling years in someone’s life in my opinion. Now that Shadow is a freshmen, he wants to start the year off right by joining clubs and being sociable, but suddenly his brother Daniel, who was supposedly gone for seven years has come back into his life, bringing back troubles into Shadow’s emotional roller coaster. Rottman, a newly born high school freshman named Ernest Thompson goes by the nickname “Shadow.” He took this nickname not because he wears all black, but because when he was younger, he’d follow his brother, Daniel, and acted as Daniel’s shadow. In the book I read, Shadow of a Doubt by S.L. Wearing “all black everything” every single day must be an easy way to get dressed every morning, right? Imagine this attire as defining who you are as like being a shadow.

Main characters in shadow of a doubt book