Though narrow-minded and skeptical at first, Alex grows significantly more mature and capable over the course of the novel. When he learns that he’ll have to join his grandmother Kate on her trip to the Amazon, Alex is initially frightened and angry, but once the trip begins, he quickly becomes engaged in his exciting new surroundings and the complex issues surrounding the peoples and environment of the Amazon.
He lives with his two sisters, Andrea and Nicole, and his parents, John and Lisa. Alex is a skilled mountain climber and flutist and, until his mother gets sick, he leads a happy and uneventful life.
Alex starts out as an average fifteen-year-old from the California coast who “had never felt any great curiosity to explore beyond the safe boundaries of his own existence” (15). Alex Cold is the novel’s protagonist and the character whose perspective most colors the narrative.
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