How does Philip Reeve create an effective character with Shrike ?

Philip Reeve creates an effective character with shrike. Philip reeve gives two sides to shrike on one side he is kind and the other side his very scary and violent .

He is some evidence to back up my statements . When Philip reeves introduces shrike he make it sound like its a unidenifed object (UO)  “it’s mouth was a slot full of metal teeth .   It’s noise and the top of its head were covered by a long metal skull-piece” this suggested that shrike is a scary and dangerous robot.

On the other hand we find that he has a sensitive side. This is demonstrated when he finds Hester near his home : when he picks her up and says “you can’t stay here child ” this suggested that shrike in the past had children or he was around children a lot and because of the way that he said “CHILD”Another thing that suggests shrike is a good character is that he didn’t kill Hester and tom straight away he gave them a chance  run away by saying “HESTER SHAW” then when he arrived he warned them that he was trying to kill the “im  sent here to kill you by Mugnas Crome ” this suggests that he doesn’t want to kill them but his created to do that so he will.

Philip reeves does this with shrike because I think he what’s to create an illusion . I think this because he put two side on shrike and that’s a bit weird because you don’t see that in other books ( apart from Harry Potter Mr snipe ) because it’s so hard to write and to properly understand who shrike is now and who shrike was then .

That why I think that Philip reeves has a good writing technique and that’s why I think that Philip reeves creates a good character with shrike and the other characters in the story .