Meet The Protagonist

The protagonist of the book (Journey to the River Sea ) is Maia Fielding. Maia is the type of girl who is studious and honest and a good academic. She is thoughtful and sweet and a little bit mischievous. If she has a fault, it is that she is perhaps too trusting and too optimistic. When she hears that she does indeed have family, and that they are happy for her to come and live with them, she is excited. But when it becomes clear she is heading for the Amazon, she becomes a bit nervous.

Physical Description- Maia has a pale triangular face and widely spaced dark eyes. Her ears, laid bare by the heavy rope of black hair, gave her an 'unprotected' look. Some people think Maia is pretty but Maia doesn't find it so. Fair and curly haired and pretty was what she longed to be. (Chapter 1 Pg. 7)

Personality- Maia is a clever, friendly, nice child and a brave one too. Maia is brave because she had fought hard to overcome the devastating blow of her parents' death in a train crash in Egypt two years ago. Maia had wept night after night under her pillow trying not to wake her friends up since she lives in the school along with others. Maia is thought to be nice by the school's headmaster and her sister, her guardian, her governess, Finn and Clovis. They think that if good fortune was to come her way, there was no who deserved it more than Maia. Maia is also friendly as she makes friends quickly. First with a homesick child actor whom she meets on the boat to Manaus, then with a mysterious Indian boy and finally with her governess. Maia is clever seeing she can read, write and speak English exceedingly proficiently as well as in maths. Overall, Maia is an attractive child. (Pg. 5, 7, 19, 50, 51)

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