The way Reeve creates an effect on the character is the personality that  shrike has e.g like he has different sides to him that can make people very scared. In the story the author makes shrike a nice calm and cares for people like Hester Shaw e.g when Hester Shaw wanted to go to London but Shrike warned her not to go London or herself and himself will get caught and killed, but on the other hand he has a bad villain side to him that scares people e.g when he said to Hester Shaw ” YOU CANT COME HERE CHILD”, another example in he book to show that Shrike is a scary character in the story is when he quotes ” I-AM-A-STALK-ER-! EX-TER-MIN-ATE s the way it comes across people reading the book makes him a bad character but on the other side Shrike has a good side to him for example,in chapter 13 he warned Hester Shaw not to go to London or herself or himself will get killed so this shows that  Shrike has a caring loving side to him.

Another way that Reeve creates an effect on shrike is his appearance in the book (mortal engines). In the book Shrike is  described as a cyborg with big long sharp claws with big, round, bulgy, dark green eyes that glow in the dark and he clothes are torn and ripped, so the way Reeve creates shrike by appearance that comes across to other people that reads the book, is that shrike is a monster and not a good character but on the other hand he has a caring loving side to him for example, when he warns Hester Shaw not to go to London or himself or herself will get killed.

Another way that Reeve creates an effect on shrike is by the way he describes him, in the book (mortal engines) the description of Shrike is in depth detail e.g, Philip Reeve describes Shrike as a big tall cyborg with big long sharp claws with big round bulgy dark green eyes that glow in the dark he’s clothes are torn and ripped so the way the description comes across to people is that shrike is a bad character, but has a good side to him as well

Shrike is a mysterious and violent character in the book mortal engines, the reason why he is a violent character is because when he first came to the air heaven and killed Anna valentine and several air-haven but in the book shrike cannot hurt humans, he can only harm stalkers, the only reason why he cannot hurt human children or humans is because he once had a human child before they changed him to a stalker. in the book Shrike is only known for helping children like when he helped Hester Shaw was half dead therefore he adopts her another reason why he helps children is because the mayor wants Shrike to kill the child of someone else but instead he kills the mayor instead of the children he kills the mayor.

Another way that Philip Reeve creates an effect on Shrike is by faking his character and adding allot of story behind his character like when he was a human before and the air haven turned him into a stalker or cyborg and the mayor sets him a mission to kill all children but before he was a human so he had a human son therefore he kills the mayor instead of doing as he said. so the way Philip Reeve creates the character is by making him a good character.