
General Discussion - Gene Wolfe's The Claw of the Conciliator
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Is Sevarion a Child or an Adult?
He feels like an adult character at this point i think you could even argue that the child adult question kind of got waylaid into the character development of the novel yeah. He has some more adult tendencies in terms of being able to experience and enact compassion in a way that he hadn't before but he's also second guessing all the things he thought were true in his youth so he's having that complication perhaps what really bookends that is the decision to say okay i've seen all of the paths of life now i'm going to thracks which pushes him toward a more adult perspective on lifeYeah the question seems less pressing now about like when was the moment it's passed even though we never
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