Stolen Tongues

Felix Blackwell is the 28-year-old narrator and protagonist. His dynamism relies on his change from a person who doesn’t believe in the supernatural to one who does, even though he gives up trying to understand the entity that pursues him and his fiancée, Faye, from Colorado to their home in California.

Felix is loyal and very dedicated to Faye. He is routinely sleep-deprived, first because of Faye’s parasomnia and, later, his own. He is frightened beyond words when he observes certain changes in her, especially in this state, as well as changes in himself. He even begins to question the motives and knowledge possessed by many people in Faye’s family, the Spencers. He feels certain that the Impostor wants information that Faye has and unfettered access to her mind and soul, and these thoughts, he says, “anchored me to my sanity. The desire to protect her gave me strength” (161).

Even as the emotional distance between Felix and Faye grows and Felix’s mental health declines, he resists the pull of death by suicide because of his commitment to her. He says, “Devotion and hopelessness battled inside of me, yanking my mind back and forth across the landscape of my thoughts.