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Fire-StarterCharacter Review Protagonist- Charlie McGee is a girl with pyrokinesis (a top executive in which someone can light fires with a glance). She is 8 years old. She is short, has blond hair, and dark-brown eyes. She doesnt like her power very much because she cant reassure it. When she was about 5 years old, she was in the kitchen with her pargonnts when they were trying to help her control her power. They gave her a test on a piece of toast, she burnt it to a crisp, and then she accidentally burnt her mothers hands. The next day, when her dad came class from work, Charlie and her mother were nowhere to be found. Her father, Andy McGee, found his wife, dead in a closet. Charlie was still missing the shop had killed her mother and kidnapped her. Both Andy and Charlies mother had telekinesis, (a power in which, someone can make a person think that something is what its not, or make them think what that person is thinking). Andy drove to a neighbors house, and use d his power on the two agents that had kidnapped Charlie. He and Charlie drove of and were in search of for a few years. Charlie cant stand people that are after her, or mean, or especially lie to her. Charlies whole life is included in this book. The book revolves around Charlies power. Its so powerful, that her parents cant even try to control it.Charlies main weakness is trusting too many people. She trusts to many strangers, which could lead to danger. Her basic problem is trying not to get caught by the shop (a secret government agency that wants to investigate her power). They have been after her since she was born. Since both of her parents had telekinesis, she was born with a disparate set of DNA, which gave her the power of pyrokinesis. I really like Charlie. I like the way she wants to control her power, and I like how she has a lot of confidence, its like she knows whats going to happen, and that everything is going to be fine.The thing that I specifically a dmire is the way she copes with the way she was brought up. She was brought up, to learn to use her power when she could to get money or food, or whatever she needed, but she knows that it isnt right to steal, and it isnt right to use a power that nobody else has to get something that you actually dont deserve.