Fever CrumbCharactersAt the beginning of the story the main character, Fever Crumb, is rational and reasonable. “Then there was the hair, or rather, the lack of hair. The order wished to bring humanity into the future and believed that hair was unnecessary. The fever shaved her head every other morning. (8). This quote shows how Fever is rational because he removes things from his life that have more to do with comfort and beauty, which he believes are irrational, than with utility. Fever has been sheltered from irrational things for most of her life, so when she is thrust into the city of normal people she doesn't understand why they do or do irrational things. At the end of the book he doesn't have the same disapproval of irrational things that he has at the beginning. “The fever touched his hairy scalp and he tried to smile. “I'm planning to develop it.”(324) This shows that Fever no longer cares about irrational things. Her shaved head was symbolic of the fact that she was not a victim of comfort and beauty, but now she is growing her hair back. Initially, when Fever interacts with other people, she is usually not shy and tells them if they are doing something irrational unless she can sense that it has a lot of meaning to them, but eventually she doesn't care anymore. Ideas The main character, Fever Crumb, is chased by two people who want to kill her because of her race. One of those chasing Fever is Bagman Creech who was shot by Fever's friend. Charley is another other. He shoots Fever and thinks he killed her (but he didn't). He realizes that she was a person just like him and feels terrible. His feelings are shown in this quote ".....not enough to be worth doing the thing he had done...... middle of paper ......they dared to suggest it for fear that the "others would" deem them irrational” (17) shows this point of view. It shows the motivations of two different people, meaning the narrator knows more of one person's thoughts and feelings. “In a voice too small for her or anyone else to hear” (18) shows that the narrator is using she, which is used for the third person. Order The story is mostly told in chronological order, except for a few flashbacks. When they recount some events from the past, it is not a person who speaks, but is instead put in the omniscient third person. “When Gideon Crumb first came to London, the city was still ruled by the Scrivens” (150) This quote is when a character tells what happened to him in the past but instead of talking, When I first came to London ..., is told without dialogue, so it's like you're traveling back into the past in the story.