Guide Mentor

Character Role Analysis

Janie

Janie, the telekineticist, plays a nurturing role throughout the novel. She takes care of much of the daily work for the gestalt under Lone. She backs up Gerry when he defends the second incarnation of the advanced life form. Finally, with supreme patience and kindness, she helps Hip work through his memories to discover who he is and what happened to him. Without Janie's help, Hip would not have been able to build the ethical philosophy that saves the day.

Lone

The first head of the gestalt guides the other parts into assembling around him. Lone provides the basic shelter and direction they initially all need to survive. Unfortunately, his guidance can only go so far, as he is feeble-minded and unable to direct the gestalt as it needs. Womp womp. Plus, he gets killed by an oak that falls over in a flash flood, which wins the award for most disappointingly random death in this story.

Stone

The psychotherapist Stern guides Gerry in remembering who he is and what went down at Miss Kew's house. He's basically the perfect psychoanalyst, revealing almost nothing about himself. He simply listens to Gerry and occasionaly provides him prompts. But with a sense of humor, too!