MainMMain Character: Celia Bowen
A suicide note from her mother pinned to her jacket, Celia's life would be forever different from this moment forward. Sent to live with her father, Prospero the Enchanter, Celia is forced into a competition that she must train for. Her pessimist personality shows especially when she spends what should be worry free years of her childhood training and learning what her father shoves down her throat. "I can't do it, “Celia says with tears in her eyes"(31). Celia is weak when she is young, she never knows what to expect out of the world, she feels alone. She suffers through continuous training that is expected of her by her father, "Her father gives her only moments to rest before slicing each of her newly healed fingers again"(34). Celia not only gets past her troubled childhood, she learns from it. Even though her father is still forcing her to practice magic for the competition, she finally puts in on to herself to find happiness and makes a bad situation into something magical, " "Making books fly around her room like birds..","She becomes quite adept at manipulating fabric, altering her gowns as expertly as a master tailor to accommodate the weight she has regained, her body feeling like her own again"(52),Celia transforms not only herself, a once slim figure into curves that suit her structure but also transforms her personality. Celia a once sheltered child is now teenage girl that thinks the world as her canvas. Besides becoming optimistic, Celia also becomes aware that life is what you make of it. Not only by losing her mother to suicide at a young age, she also sees how her father’s life plays out. He's unhappy and miserable, and Celia doesn't want to become a cut out image of him, “You do not get to dictate how I spend every moment of my time, Papa"(174). Celia finally becomes her own person and creates her own identity. Celia’s caring personality makes her close to many at the circus and she would do anything for them, even taker her own life for saving everyone at the circus, "I suppose I was always more of my mother's daughter"(420). After working at the circus for many years, Celia puts other people before herself frequently and this has taken a huge toll on her. She finally found her happiness after she left home, but after years of participating in this competition she feels like giving up. This may seem selfish of her, but in all honesty she has been holding together every part of the circus and she feels that she should save the innocent people attached to the circus, who have no idea that the circus is the venue for the competition. Celia decides that the only way out of this mess is her death, but her love-struck personality makes herself see how in the end it shouldn't matter unless you have reached happiness, "There are so many things she wants to say, things she feared would never have the opportunity to tell him again. Only one seems truly important,” I love you," she says"(468).
A suicide note from her mother pinned to her jacket, Celia's life would be forever different from this moment forward. Sent to live with her father, Prospero the Enchanter, Celia is forced into a competition that she must train for. Her pessimist personality shows especially when she spends what should be worry free years of her childhood training and learning what her father shoves down her throat. "I can't do it, “Celia says with tears in her eyes"(31). Celia is weak when she is young, she never knows what to expect out of the world, she feels alone. She suffers through continuous training that is expected of her by her father, "Her father gives her only moments to rest before slicing each of her newly healed fingers again"(34). Celia not only gets past her troubled childhood, she learns from it. Even though her father is still forcing her to practice magic for the competition, she finally puts in on to herself to find happiness and makes a bad situation into something magical, " "Making books fly around her room like birds..","She becomes quite adept at manipulating fabric, altering her gowns as expertly as a master tailor to accommodate the weight she has regained, her body feeling like her own again"(52),Celia transforms not only herself, a once slim figure into curves that suit her structure but also transforms her personality. Celia a once sheltered child is now teenage girl that thinks the world as her canvas. Besides becoming optimistic, Celia also becomes aware that life is what you make of it. Not only by losing her mother to suicide at a young age, she also sees how her father’s life plays out. He's unhappy and miserable, and Celia doesn't want to become a cut out image of him, “You do not get to dictate how I spend every moment of my time, Papa"(174). Celia finally becomes her own person and creates her own identity. Celia’s caring personality makes her close to many at the circus and she would do anything for them, even taker her own life for saving everyone at the circus, "I suppose I was always more of my mother's daughter"(420). After working at the circus for many years, Celia puts other people before herself frequently and this has taken a huge toll on her. She finally found her happiness after she left home, but after years of participating in this competition she feels like giving up. This may seem selfish of her, but in all honesty she has been holding together every part of the circus and she feels that she should save the innocent people attached to the circus, who have no idea that the circus is the venue for the competition. Celia decides that the only way out of this mess is her death, but her love-struck personality makes herself see how in the end it shouldn't matter unless you have reached happiness, "There are so many things she wants to say, things she feared would never have the opportunity to tell him again. Only one seems truly important,” I love you," she says"(468).