He has a terrible face, when you looked at his poisonous green eyes, it makes you like, like sorry I cannot say or he will kill me the only way to beat him is reading the book please read it and try to be alive. Shrike was just a speck, his green eyes glowing as he stalked out along the strut to watch them go.
Despite being a killing machine shrike dosen’t like to harm children, because he himself once had children before he became a stalker. He is shown to help children, such as when Hester Shaw was left half dead he adopts her.Another example is when a mayor wants him to kill the children from someone else.
look, this is how I describe him: (expectives)

He is made of metal with cables everywhere, with his poisenous eyes that can make you feel confused , he has a big jacket that covers his animatronic system. On his chest he has a metal heart or kind of well you know what do I mean.
For my opinion I Think that Shrike is a human but someone killed him and took his spirit and put it into a killing machine.

(real book describes)

It was seven feet tall, and beneath its coat shone metal armour. The flesh of its long face was pale, glistening with slug-like film of mucus, and here and there a blue white jag of bone showed through the skin. its mouth was a slot full of metal teeth. its nose and the top of its head were covered by long metal skull-piece with tubes and flexes trailing down like dreadlocks, their ends plugged into ports on its chest. its round glass eyes gave it a startled look, as if it had never got over the horrible suprise of what had happend to it.

It makes me think sometimes that shrike is half human and half machine but at thr same time I feel that some day he will envolve to a human. Creates an image of a threating machine that has been damage.
How does he attack?

Shrike the stalker came foward slowly, shoving aside the empty chairs and tables. Fallen glasses burst under its feet. From the shadows behind an avitor swung at it with a sword, but the blade rebound from its armour.

Shrike is an effective character because reeve creates an effect because he says shrike has two sides than one. Some cases he is scary and no hearted like some kind of monster or a kind of creature. Also he has a sensetive and human side, he showns by saying to hester “you can’t stay here child” this shows the good side of him.

The reader would then think that if you tell the other side of shrike the students or the people will create automatically an image about him in his head. This is demostrated when he says ” She went to shrike and told him she wanted to go after valentine.” Shrike said to Hester ” you must not, you’ll be killed” that shows that he is half human.

And now the big moment came, and going to tell you now the good side of shrike and the bad side of him.

The good side of him is that he dosen’t kill or decapite kids but the bad thing of him that he us a stalker and stalks everyone