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He is a clever boy (in the first part) and a becomes a good writer in his age (parallels to Robert Cormier's life).He lives in the Frenchtown section of Monument in the late 1930s. He has got one elder brother, two younger sisters and one younger brother (the one, who dies in a tender age and who makes Paul with his death decide not to "Fade" again). He is strong catholic educated (like Robert Cormier), but does not really believe in God. He is shy and quiet, trying not to get into trouble. If he has problems he always thinks that everything is his fault. As he has feelings of guilt he often goes to church and goes to confession. When he begins to "Fade" many accidents happen, so he blames his ability to "Fade" for everything and decides not to "Fade" any longer.
He has normal puberty problems, when he falls in love with his adult aunt Rosanna. I do not, however understand, when he does not stop to love her in his old age, in spite of seeing her not for about 50 years. He always loved women but he is not married. Probably his true love is his aunt, but perhaps he thinks that he cannot confess his secrets to any other person (the manuscript comes up when he has died). He never really left Frenchtown. The only time when he does, is to find Ozzie, but then he does not feel good at all. He only talks to people he knows very well. Probably the "Fade" made him that mistrustful. He really hates the "Fade" because of the things he saw and did not want to know.
He kills Ozzie not out of anger or rage, no, he knew that had to, thinking of the people Ozzie would hurt. He sees killing Ozzie not as a sin, he thinks that he had done something good for all the people. He regrets, howevre, killing the man in his youth. He killed that man out of anger and so recognised that the "Fade" is something evil. His afraid of being evil because of his catholic education. His really not afraid of law (he could escape of prison anytime).
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