As I said previously Mayor Orden is the leader of the 'good guys.' In the beginning of the The Moon is Down the reader may observe that Mayor Orden does not have very good leadership skills and is kind of silly or strange. The first time he enters the novel he is late and he is scratching himself. This, of course, is not foreshadowing of his future leadership skills during the course of the plot. When Mayor Orden meets Colonel Lanser for the first time, Mayor Orden seems very confused as to why his town is being invaded with soldiers. When he is this slow to react about the situation the reader might begin to wonder how he was ever elected mayor in the first place. When Colonel Lanser started moving his headquarters into the mayor's home, is when two things really started happening. The mayor's home as described in the beginning of the book was warm and grand. His house was probably the biggest and most beautiful in the whole town. When the Colonel and his men began to move their base in the scene started to change a little bit. The mayor's home became more gloomy and cold feeling. It was like he had no more control. That takes us to the second thing that happened! Mayor Orden begins to take control of his town and becomes a great leader to his people. He has his own thoughts and ideas on what to do about the invasion and he begins to listen to the citzens ideas so they can work together and fight off the invaders once and for all! In the end Mayor Orden is the greatest leader the town could have asked for. He was strong, he had great ideas, and he would have done anything to please the people of his town. He left a great legacy behind him in his death.
Steinbeck, John. The Moon is Down. New York: Penguin Classics, 1942. Print.
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