What might have happened if Kelly did not come into the picture?
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Re: What might have happened if Kelly did not come into the picture?
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Kelly was a device to move the story along as the author envisioned it. As such, she worked well but was not very well developed as a character. Her death didn't provoke an emotional reaction for me other than a slight bit of surprise.
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It's true that Sliver had gone against the corporation in some ways, reprogramming the computer to converse, saving the Shredders when the corporation must have meant them to be killed. But these were more like games to him, minor acts of rebellion that he didn't expect to get punished for. Saving the shredders gave him a group of drinking buddies, while a talkative computer made the long hours in the air pass more quickly.jcoad wrote: ↑10 Aug 2018, 08:18 I don't know why Kelly was even in the book. Sliver had already thought on his own with the Shredders. He was already "cheating" with Franklin conversations. Kelly was there, she died, that was her contribution. He already hated Ancarn, he didn't need her death for that.
The first line in the novel says he viewed killing as "just a job". That started to change when he came across Kelly. Even as she lies unconscious outside the exploded farmhouse, he recognizes a "connection" to her that he surmises may be "sympathy". He "starts, for the first time in years, to feel".
He may, eventually, have gotten fed up with Fellrock's excuses and gone off to kill Ancarn. He may have found a way to get off the serum and managed to flee the corporations. But, I don't think that you can say that his character was not changed by the influence Kelly held over him. It may just have been the consequence of having to face someone who survived. I think her relative innocence, as someone brought up completely off the grid, may have provided a new perspective, a less jaded world view that still held a place for wrong and right.
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