not displaying 1 character

[SteveCRM]

for(i=1; i<=sizeof(big); i++)  {
if(big[0] == '*')  {
StartCopy == true;
//MessageBox(ghWnd_Main, "COPY = TRUE!", "Copy Test", MB_OK);
}
else if(StartCopy == true)  {
linkURL[holder] = big[i];
holder++;
}
//MessageBox(ghWnd_Main, linkURL, "linkURL", MB_OK);
}
MessageBox(ghWnd_Main, big[1], "big", MB_OK);
SearchMode=3;

heres a block of my code...why does the messagebox displaying big[1] show a whole string starting from 1???? I only want to use that character