Malorie

Malorie is the protagonist in "Bird Box." Through her perspective, the reader gets all of the action in the book, save one chapter which features Tom's perspective. In following Malorie through the Trouble, Malerman spits her story into 3 distinct narratives. In the earliest, she finds out she is pregnant while staying with her sister. Alongside this knowledge, the world discovers something that drives humans mad with bloodlust. Shannon and Malorie cloister themselves in their apartment until one day Shannon kills herself.

Malorie then goes to the Riverbridge house where she meets Tom, Don, and the others. Here, most of the novel's action takes place. Malorie spends the next 6 months of her pregnancy in the house where Olympia and Gary end up staying as well. Gary eventually persuades Don to remove the blinds from the house and open the doors to allow the creatures to enter the home. The...