"And my hands are starting to work better, I don´t even have to wear bandages on them anymore. They´re still purple but not as bad as they used to be." (Pg. 59)
When reading these words I could only picture a scene in one of my favorite movies, V for Vendetta. The setting shows V, the main character, cooking breakfast. He also suffered an accident involving fire and covers his scars with clothes, a mask, and gloves. V removed these gloves because they were hindering his cooking and didn´t realize Evey, a woman with curly brown hair he abducted, was watching intently. His hands are mostly scarred and pink, creating an unpleasant contrast with the food being cooked. When V realized Evey had seen his hands, he quickly forgives himself and asks Evey if she lost her appetite after having caught a glimpse of his hands.
V resembles Brent in many ways. Both were part of an accident involving fire, both feel like monsters, and both survived and had to deal with what followed. Women helped ease the pain of not accepting themselves but most importantly, both seek revolutionary change. V attempts to shape his society into one of functional anarchy instead of living in a world of abuse and corruption. Brent wears black as a manifestation of his disapproval of war and even at a younger age, he had already considered suicide.
Not only their hands resemble each other, their radcial way of dealing with things is also similar.
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