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In this story, there are basically 3 characters. First, there is the young girl. She was just the curious explorer in this story that ended up finding something unexpected. We don’t know much about her because her privacy was being protected. “It is the kid’s own privacy that is being protected here. She was twelve years old and her name is being withheld even though she is neither the victim nor the perpetrator of the crime but only the means of recording it” (para.4). Then, we have the man in the Dodge. All we can gather from him is that “He is bald up to the middle of his head, a nice guy in his forties whose whole life seems open to the hand-held camera” (para.12). We don’t get the chance to learn much about him at all, because he is soon shot after he is introduced. Finally, there is the narrator. He is watching the footage from his home, and it isn’t his first time watching it. He knows exactly what will happen every time and yet he can’t pull himself away from it. He’s so intent on having his wife watch it with him that it almost seems as if he needed verification that his feelings were okay, from her. He wanted to know that other people were as impacted by this video as he was. He felt very deeply about the video, and it was as if he needed a “reality check”.
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