Over the course of Northern lights, Lyra has changed in many aspects of her personality and mentality. The events and experience of her adventure saw her into great perils, challenges, dangers and personal successes, all of which build her character throughout the story. One of the ways her mentality, and maturity, has grown, is her sense of what war, violence, and fighting really is. Another of Lyra's major transformations was her view on death, and how she acts around the dead. My third viewpoint on how Lyra has changed through Northern Lights, is her perceptions of bravery, what being brave really means, and how reacting naturally is human, not childish.

As Lyra finds herself in situations of conflict and war, she begins to realize that it's not just a fun pastime. In the beginning of the story, Lyra sees war as a game, something to keep her occupied. Or what she thinks war is. "In fact, of course, Lyra and her peers were engaged in deadly warfare" (pg 36...

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