As the story goes on the main characters of these two stories change personality wise due to the major experienced they faced in the story so much happened that there whole outlook on there life had changed dramatically. In the story the darkness out there the main character is a girl called Sandra. At first she is taken as very naïve and innocent, although she was quite stuck up and very judgemental, at the start of the story she seems to be in her own world as she day dreams a lot about her future and falling in love, having children and getting married. Sandra has a lot of ambition and wants to be happy in life and have a good job. Her character in the story is full of self-confidence as she has good and her youth. We gain knowledge about her character when she helps out and old lady called Mrs Rutter with household chores; Sandra does all this because she and other children are enrolled in a club called the good neighbours club. There is another person who is with Sandra with her to help out as well his name is Kerry Stephens compared to Sandra his is immature.
When the old lady (Mrs Rutter) begins telling Sandra about her experience in packers end her naivety is lost leaves her and she becomes more experienced but she obviously seems to be saddened by the story she has just heard from Mrs Rutter. She then starts to realize that people change due to there life they had led and that many people have a hidden dark side, she also gain knowledge of how hard life can be, and its not a simple as she would like to think it was. The other helper who was helping her (Kerry Stephens), she saw him as a spotty and immature also she didn’t think much of his appearance nor did her friends. On all this Sandra had made a judgement on him and also stereotyped him. Actually she was quite hostile towards him. “ You can people all wrong,” she said. Sandra knew that Kerry grow up much more but at the time she didn’t realize that it was her who had matured. At this point Sandra’s attitude on life had changed, this only happened as she let her mind take in the realities of life, now more mature Sandra had realized that the stories and myths of packers end weren’t real.
In the other story the red room the young man had a different personality than compared to Sandra, he was more confident. He was macho and he didn’t think too much on the elderly folk. He didn’t seem to be as scared of the red room as Sandra was of packers end. Even when the elderly people tried to convince him it was haunted but he didn’t listen. He seemed to be brave and determined he was trying to go against the elderly people’s advise and went into the red room. He told them “it was of his own choosing which was is the red room, it is what I came for” he wanted to establish the truth.
The old woman says,” There’s many things to see when one’s but eight and twenty.”
It is obvious that the man doesn’t like the old people and this shows he is ignorant, just like the girl in the darkness out there was when dealing with the elderly. He describes them as “grotesque” and “inhuman” they young man sees them as hostile. Towards the end of the story the mans imagination begins to get to him, he starts feeling that he isn’t in control of his emotions or ether his imagination. Fear gets finally comes to him, it inhibits his breathing, he faints the young man is feeling wary about entering the red room. He is deeply effective by this experience and great full to the elderly people for their comfort they give to him. The young man realizes that fear is a very real thing in all our lives and says the following
“The worst of all things that haunt poor mortal man, is in all its nakedness, fear.
Fear that will not have the light or sound, that will not bear with reason, but darkness, deafeats, and overwhelms.” He also realizes that he was wrong to people before he got to know them. The young man and Sandra had been affected by the events that had taken place, but in a way they had learned sum things about themselves that they never knew they had changed for the better and learned far more about themselves. Sandra learns that there are many selfish people in our world and is shocked to find out the darkness many people have in their hearts. Between the two stories Sandra has appeared to change the most. And if I had to chose on which person outer the red room and the darkness out there I would have to choose Sandra, as am I see the niceties in people, but on the judgement part I don’t think I relate to her in that as I, do not judge a person before I get to know them.
