Soapstone: Alabama MoonCharacters:In the novel Alabama Moon a boy named Moon is the main character. Moon is very independent because throughout the story he does many things on his own, including living alone. On page 3 I found out he was ten because he said "I was ten and he had taught me everything I needed to know about life in the forest." So this proved to me that he knew how to live alone in the forest and that he was ten years old, which was young enough to live alone in the forest. In the beginning, when Moon was scared and alone without his father, he was aggressive towards the other characters. On page 27 Moon really showed his anger towards Mr. Abroscotto “I felt the anger go through my head. I jumped onto the seat of my chair and leaped across the counter to land on Mr. Abroscotto. It fell back onto the shelves behind and I started hitting it with the one hand that wasn't holding it. I hit his cheek over and over as fast as I could. Once I regained my balance, he held me in his arms so I couldn't move my fists." Moon gets angry when someone talks badly about her father, so she decides to try to beat him up. Moon is also willing to do what he thought his father wanted him to do. Like when he wanted to go to Alaska because that's where his father told him to go after he died. On pages 25 and 26 Moon was talking to Mr. Abroscotto and asked him where his was going: “Where are you headed when you leave here? Alaska. How do you plan to go to Alaska? Sell ​​the watch and the things in this box. And I have money left over from the last time we were here. I see. What will you do when you get there? Pap said there are other people like us there. He said that c...... half of the paper ...... aragraph above. Why did the author do this? The author of the story Alabama Moon did this because he wanted the story to have all those things. The author wanted to shoot it in first person because he wanted the main character to tell the story through his point of view. The author wanted the conflict to go from a lot to very little because he wanted to make it interesting. The author created all those vocabulary words in the story so that the reader was not too difficult but not too easy to miss. The author put the story in the form of paragraphs so that the reader could easily read the book and follow it like any other book. The author also provided all the textual evidence of the story so that the reader could follow it very well and get all the information they needed. That's why the author did all these things.