In the book titled Illumination Night, Alice Hoffman has clearly defined each character, attributing to them the most unique and distinctive traits, but giving enough 'elbow room' for parallelism between them. As the characters struggle with family relationships, social acceptance, restriction and betrayal, they are forced to cooperate with one another; they "can't afford to be nasty to each other when the live on an island. No matter where they go, they're bound to run …showed first 75 words of 1452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1452 total…herself a sense of identity and belonging. The characters in Illumination Night were written in a way that defines each personality yet still mimicking each other in their thought processes and actions; they are a combined symbol of the empathetic reliance that is observed in the novel. The characters in Illumination Night are nothing less than a gathering of stunning victories, they truly are the remarkable figures that Alice Hoffman had set out to accomplish.