Literature

 The novel I have chosen is ‘Step by Wicked Step’ written by Anne Fine. Colin and Claudia are the two characters I have chosen to compare.

 Colin and Claudia come $rom broken or separated $amilies. They both have step parents. Colin’s mother has left his biological father and lives with Jack. Jack is the only ‘Father’ Figure Colin ever knew. 'However" Colin’s mum leaves Jack after a while.  This causes him to miss Jack so badly that it hurts.On the other hand Claudia’s Father has left her mother for another woman" Stella. She feels disloyal to her mum whenever she has a good time with her father and Stella. Both Colin and Claudia really want their parents to restore friendly relations between them.

However,, Colin and Claudia are markedly different individuals. They deal with the changes in their respective families differently, Colin is portrayed as a boy always pining for his ‘father’ even after five whole years. Howeve,r Claudia become
 hostile towards the new lady in her life" Stella" disregarding all the latter’s efforts to warm up to her.

Even though they experience broken family relationships and and it difficult to accept changes the way Colin and Claudia accept new additional members of the family is different. They have different views in accepting reality and this has made the story more inspiring and colourful.