Character Sketch "Emma" of "The Lost"

The Character Sketch/Analysis of Emma in The Lost: The Dark Ground. An old document that I wrote as an assignment I found in my computer... hope it helps!

Read below the Character Sketch for Emma in the novel "The Lost" by Gillian Cross.

Character Sketch: Emma

By Saad Bazaz

Class 7D

Emma is the sister of the main character, Robert, in the trilogy “The Lost” by Gillian Cross. The main role in this story is of Robert Dohetry, and how he shrinks to a small size. She is the snobby sister whom Robert dislikes, but later when Robert shrinks, he remembers her in a good way. Most of the story is revolving around Robert and his new shrunken life, which is why Emma does not appear much in the middle of the story.

Positive traits: She is kind and tolerant, especially when Robert tells her to help the people of the cavern. She does sincerely care for Robert, but she does not show it. We can tell because in the end of the story, when Robert becomes bigger, she complains that ‘Robert’ (the bigger one) had lately been ignoring her and had become dull and dead, as if he were imagining something.

Negative traits: She does not believe anything until she sees it with her own eyes. She only believes Robert when she sees two of him joining in the end of the story. She is not imaginative. She is self-centered, and thinks herself as superior, as we observe in the start of the story in the airplane where she does not believe Robert and snubs him.

She has long, flowing blonde hair. She has a white face. She is skinny and has long legs. Robert told her appearance in the start of the story and in the end, where he sees her large looming body move as she went to school. She is pretty but when Robert remembers her she always has a mocking face.

 She is Robert’s only sibling. Her relationship with Robert is not good. Before Robert shrank, she was always snubbing him and he never liked her crude remarks. She never listened to him. But now when Robert shrank, he started remembering Emma as his only companion in his old life and her crude remarks and the longing of returning back helped him survive in the large jungle.

We think Emma is a great addition to the story “The Lost”, because all of us have some obstacles in life which Robert refers to as a ‘snobby sister’. At first we think of them as rude and selfish but later, when they departure, we remember them and they help us go ahead in life.