The Hypnotist

<p> The main charcter in the novel The Hypnotist is Jax.  Jax is a boy who has the ability to hynotize people into doing whatever he wishes, and he could either use it for good, like changing the mind of someone about to commit suicide, or for bad, like manipulating important government figures to do what he wants, as Jax's hypnotist mentor is trying to do.  This reflects Jax's worst quality- he is too trusting.  His teacher insists his full belief is to use the power for good and not just use it for selfish reasons, and Jax just believes him, even when evidence against that is presented.  He chooses to wrongly trust his mentor, and almost enables him to get away with manipulating the future U.S. President. This is the opposite of one of my worst qualities- unlike Jax, I'm not trusting enough.  Istead of accepting every new person I meet and believing everything like he does, I tend to stay wary of people for a longer time until I know for sure that they're who they seem to be or say they are.  This also causes me to miss big details, because I can't get close enough to people to see what's really happening if it turns out to be something that could harm people, and if a situation like that ever came up, I most likely wouldn't do very well.</p>
<p> However, Jax has many good qualities as well.  The best one is that Jax is able to resist using hynotism to get what he wants and empower himself in society.  He makes a promise to himself to not use hypnotism for these reasons early on in the book, and sticks with it.  The only time Jax uses his power outside of being trained by his mentor is to stop a man from jumping off a bridge and killing himself, and to stop the next U.S. President from being under control of his mentor once he discovers his mentor's ulterior motives.  His quality of being able to do what is right in the end is also one of my better qualities.  Even if there is a situation I know isn't right and I stay quiet in the beginning, I'm able to think about if I need to do something about it.  If I do, I can make a plan of what I'm going to do and then do it the next time an opportunity comes around.