What Is Shiva Not A Sympathetic Character

his fathers custody, and in the beginning of the story, he did not want to help his father

Getting beat and having his parents die at a young is a immensely sad thing to have to go through at such a young age. His hopefulness from the train was all washed away after his first foster family, but he regained it after he accepted these hardships as just something of the

mind and severed him from the reality of the real life he was living with his family in the small

Because the father was so involved with himself, he did not make the time or put the effort to develop a proper relationship with his son.

Sure, sometimes he could be rude and upset, but deep down inside he was like their father.

Over the course of the story the relationships with his father changes. In the beginning of the story he says him and his father are not very close. When they are taken to the camp, and him and father are separated from his mother and sister, that is

He feared his father

His parents had drinking problems and were sometimes abusive towards him (Author Profile). There were many challenges for him in his early life. He wasn't a good student and his parents weren't supporting him.

In the begining of the book, he was a selfish,

had to raise his two brothers because their father wasn’t able to care for them after he became an alcoholic because of the passing of his wife.

he is forced to keep the image of his father alive by writing letters pretending to be his father. In

Shiva grows up unable to form any human attachments. This makes Shiva not very sympathetic to other people. Shiva broke his dads wrist and sliced on the the other midnight's children’s eyelid and felt nothing afterward. When Shiva grew up, he became a war major and rounded up the midnight's children so they could be sterilized

much is known about his past. He faced a harsh childhood, being orphaned by age 3, and

I think that his father eventually supported him because his father shared that same dream. As mentioned in

His father was moody and very irritable and wasn’t a strong figure in the household