At the beginning of Shutter Island, by Dennis Lehane, Teddy Daniels believes he is a US Marshal sent to Shutter Island with his partner, Chuck, to investigate the case of an escaped patient, Rachel Solando. Rachel Solando is said to be a very dangerous patient who killed her three children. She somehow escaped from her cell in the psychiatric ward and is somewhere on the island. As soon as Teddy and Chuck get off the ferry and reach the desolate island, they are greeted with detachment and suspicion. None of the employees appear to provide any real evidence of the patient's disappearance and their responses seem scripted. The guards, the director and the doctors always seem to keep an eye on them. When they meet the head psychologist, Dr. Cawley, he seems congenial but withholds most of the information he knows about Rachel Solando. Teddy believes the information Dr. Cawley is withholding is crucial to the investigation. He speaks in psychobabble and suggestively. All the patients they interview seem to treat the sheriffs quite hostilely and play games with them. A patient scribbles in Teddy's notebook to escape from this mental hospital. While searching Rachel's room they find a clue she left behind, the Law of Four. Teddy later learns that all the numbers in the Law of Four suggest that there are sixty-seven patients on Shutter Island, instead of the sixty-six everyone assumed there were. A quick camaraderie develops between Teddy and Chuck as they search around the island. Despite the monstrous hurricane that hits the island, Teddy remains determined and strong. His character is courageous and he is quite intelligent. Can quickly describe the meaning of clues. . Teddy finds cryptic clues in strange places across the island. Teddy begins...middle of the paper...ion. The symbols of water and fire play a huge role in the novel. They are the line between real and fake for Andrew, or “Teddy.” Whenever there is a fire, like in the cave with Dr. Rachel Solando, the matches she lights in Ward C, the fire in the cave with “Dr. Solando” and when he blows up Dr. Cawley's car near the end, Andrew is in his own fantasy world. Whenever he is around the fire, Andrew hallucinates. Water, however, symbolizes its reality. The water brings him back into reality. His wife, Rachel, drowned their children in the water, which makes him feel uncomfortable, sick and tense. As if he was seasick at first while on the ferry. Every time Andrew floats in his wife's memories, a drop of water falls on him and he wakes up. Everyone Andrew talks to on the island constantly refers to him as "marshal" to make Teddy remember who he is.