How is your main character like you and not like you?

My main character, Spaz, is like me and also not like me. He’s like me in the way that he does what he has to to survive, and makes do with what he has. I think that he’s a lot braver then me though. When he and Ryter go and rescue Lanaya I kept thinking “I would never do something like that, they’re crazy”. I also think that he’s more grown up then I am, mostly because he didn’t have a choice. When he got kicked out of his family unit, it was a sort of grow-up or die situation. Even when he was in his family unit, he had to be really mature because Charly didn’t treat him like a normal kid, just because he had seizures, and his foster mom didn’t do anything to stop Charly from treating Spaz like that. Another way that we’re alike is that I would never want to have Billy Bizmo for a father either. If the whole town was on fire, I wouldn’t want some guy who’s famous for murdering people to come up to me and just say “I am your father”. I think that I would have the same sort of reaction as he did, I would just shut everything else out, and go to my room and think long and hard about everything that just happened. Spaz pretty much lives, just because of Bean. I really think that at the beginning of the book, she was the only reason that he was even trying to survive. I’ve never felt like this before, only having one thing, one person to live for, but I think that if I didn’t have a family, and the world was in ruins, and overall life was just absolutely awful, but I had a little sister like Bean, she would be the reason for me to fight to survive.