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Dark Matter Character Analysis

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Dark Matter Character Analysis To start off, the book I read was Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch. To give you some understanding of the plot, and how there is many more than just one Jason Dessen in this book, you’re going to need some background. This story follows a seemingly normal guy in the beginning- married, one child, stable job. However, at one point in his life, Jason was on the verge of a scientific breakthrough. He was studying quantum physics, which is basically fancy talk for discovering a way into the multiverse. The multiverse is a long-running theory that every time someone makes a decision, another world splits off from that point on; essentially creating infinite worlds. Jason could never continue with his research because his girlfriend, and future wife, was pregnant, so at that point he decided on a family instead. To make a long story short, a Jason from a different world (Jason2), who had decided on a career instead of a family, already invented a box that can take you through the multiverse. He abducted Jason1, and they swapped lives, in an effort to obtain what the other never had. One got the chance at a family and one got to experience the …show more content…

All of them were very well developed by the author, Blake Crouch. With some of the featured people in the book, you knew everything about them- their daily habits, pet peeves, regrets, basically everything that they knew about themselves you were made aware of. Whereas with other characters, you didn’t know much- their name, career, and if you’re lucky, a little back story. This made the book much more pleasurable, because when the mysterious sides of characters came out, it was more shocking and kept you more engaged. All in all, the characters in this story made the plot one to remember and much more gratifying than if they were portrayed in a different

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