"...or rather the ex-Director, for the poor man had resigned immediately afterwards and never set foot inside the Centre again..."
-Page 153
In this quote we find out the result of Bernard's plan that he had been devising since he had visited the Reservation. The Director openly fired and degraded Bernard in front of a whole floor of workers. Bernard got his revenge though by introducing Linda and John to him, who revealed all of the Director's secrets, in front of everyone. The other workers were astonished and laughed uncontrollably at the scene. The Director was so embarrassed that he immediately resigned. The Director, or as Linda would say, Tomakin, was a static character in this novel. He did not change throughout the course of the story. He was a heartless, prideful man, who thought very highly of himself and his work. He was in control the entire story, but once he lost his power and was humiliated, he vanished. This static character was put in the story to be the problem that Bernard had to resolve.
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