Sometimes an author uses two characters with parallel lives two show that two people can be very similar. This is the case in Bone Dance, by Martha Brooks. Lonny and Alex are similar even though they live far from each other. Three parallels between Lonny and Alex are that they have only one friend, one of their parents die, and someone out of their immediate family raises them. These parallels are used to join these two characters and show two different people can be similar.
The first parallel is both Lonny and Alex have one friend. Lonny's friend is Robert and Alex's is Serena. …
