Main character’s goals, dreams, and motives

The main character of Elijah of Buxton is Elijah. He’s a black boy who was born free and hasn’t faced any cruelty in his life yet. Elijah seems to have no interest in anything, or anyone, he’s just like ordinary 10 years old boy, all he wanted to do is having fun. Throughout the story, in every chapter, Elijah has learned something new to him, something that seems to be a very important thing for him in future such as bravery, honesty, strength, and humor. He personally likes mystery thing even though his parent doesn’t like him to go somewhere far. The first thing I saw as  what Eli wanted to accomplish is almost at the end of the story, he wants to help slaves, and with his power alone, he can’t do anything, not even sneaking in undetected, so he gathered his brave and told adults in the settlement to went there and help the slaves. This action has shown that what he has learned in the fore chapter, he applied it nicely and beautifully. What I think is the most important thing that motivates him is how rough and cruel the world can be, he once saw person died before him, he saw slavery and he saw robbery. So those events must be the things that has push him this far to be able to do what is right and not to stray from the rightful things. Although I think that this kid sometimes imagining things, like someone pushes him, someone is hiding and tried to kill him and stuff, although many might called cowardice but I would called it premonition (even though most of the times, he’s wrong). His dreams have never been clarify because he has never talked about them to anyone, and neither his goals nor motives, but we can read and sense those in the story.