Victimization of Minor Characters in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Shusaku Endo's Silence

behind and follow the love of her life in Guido. Dora’s bravery came at a cost of embarrassing

While some characters are considered minor, their impact is anything but unimportant. It tends to be the people who attain the least recognition that have the biggest effect overall. This is why authors, like Orwell, are able to use characters like O’Brien and Charrington to move the character development along.. In the novel, 1984 by George Orwell, Julia, who appears to have selfish beliefs, shifts her views of freedom after Charting gives her a safe space, and O’Brien shifts her view on love after he tortures her.

Characters in books all having a different significance to the plot of the story. Some characters are the ones that cause trouble while others cause happiness. Some may be ignorant while others may be intelligent. The personality of all the different characters is what makes the book the best it can be. In the story, “Lost Boy, Lost Girl Escaping Civil War In Sudan” there are many unique characters. To start off there is John, a young man who takes charge of all the so called “lost boys” at the refugee camps. Next, there is Martha, a teenage girl who lives with her sister and other Dinka Tribe members. There is Tabitha, Marth’s sister, who an adolescent and to young to understand the whole war concept. Through examination, of all the major

When Leah arrives in Africa, she is oblivious to the completely different world she is entering. She attempts to help her father with his work, yearning for his attention and recognition, but does not understand the foreign environment and culture she is engulfed by; her father, too preoccupied with his work and too set in his misogynist ways, does not listen to his daughter or even regard her positively. However, Leah is utterly dedicated to her father, saying “I know

“Again, the hatred mixed with tenderness. The hatred would not let him pick her up, the tenderness forced him to cover her.” [This quote represents the emotions that flood through Pecola’s father’s head after he rapes her. Prior to and during raping Pecola, Pecola’s father is enraged with many emotions. These emotions include anger, tenderness and l0ve towards Pecola. This is a significant quote in the novel because this is one of the few parts of where Pecola’s father, Cholly’s, character is shown. This quote reveals Cholly’s character because it shows that the events that happened in his

Nervously, Junior thinks to himself about how he has to feed not only Cat, but Daria as well, he ponders “Eggs, I could scramble some eggs, but there was no bread for toast, no milk, no sugar for coffee” (Boyle 72) thus displaying how incapable he is of caring for a pet, a guest, and let alone himself.

The minor characters lay the basis of the book by supporting the main characters throughout their activities. The minor characters that undoubtedly progress the book are Scythe Faraday, High Blade Xenocrates, and Scythe Volta. Scythe Faraday is pragmatic and compassionate. He never forgets about the feelings of others. Furthermore, he also is a realist doing whatever is expected of him even if it is arduous for him. High Blade Xenocrates has more of a weak personality. He is constantly being convinced into doing things that hurt him or the society. Though he is the High Blade, or leader, of all of the Scythes he is most like a follower (130). He is influential to the story because he, being blackmailed, lets many bad things happen to

came to him fulfilling his mission to spread christianity; he never gave up, day by day. Even

In the Time of the Butterflies is the fictional story about a family but the twist is that they didn’t end up a family in the end. A family, the Mirabals lived in the Dominican Republic. Three of the sisters, out of the four died. It opens in 1994 with a woman interviewing one of the sisters Dede. Asking her questions about her martyred sisters.

The minor characters in a story can play such a major role. In the novel, “The Strange Case of Dr .Jekyll and Mr.Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, the readers are introduced to several minor characters, such as Lanyon, Enfield, Carew, and Poole, who help advance the plot. Hastie Lanyon was an old friend of Jekyll who wrote a letter to Utterson about what he witnessed, Richard Enfield told the story of the door , Sir Danvers Carew was murdered by Hyde, and Poole was Jekyll’s butler who got Utterson for help. These minor characters play a major role in the plot.

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

The story is about Rosaura, the nine-year-old daughter of a woman who does housecleaning for a wealthy family. Rosaura often accompanies her mother to work and does her homework with Luciana, the daughter of the house. As a result, or so she thinks, Rosaura is Luciana’s friend and has

The success of literary works depends greatly on the quality of its characters, which is why it is essential to have characters, both major and minor, with distinct and contrasting personalities. Not only are minor characters used as foils for the major characters by emphasizing their important character traits, but in many cases they furthermore play a crucial role in the advancement of the plot. In the three novels that were examined this year, The Great Gatsby, The Kite Runner, and The Handmaids Tale, the minor character had a pivotal role in the development of the plot. In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is not only the narrator but he is the image of order in a society of disorder. In The Kite Runner, Rahim Khan is the moral center

One of the first minor characters that reader encounters is Reverend John Locke. He helps ply a major role by offering Frank supplies and shelter for a while before he left to continue his search. Some other important minor characters include the group of Good Samaritans that also help Frank on his travels by offering money and supplies. These minor characters help prelude to the theme of good versus evil because while Frank was in the army he was not too proud of what he did and seeing these people help him reminds him of what he did.

The most significant example of a major role played by a minor character would be the father of Pi Patel, the protagonist. Upon examination of the text, the reader can conclude that, without the guidance and choices of his father, Pi would neither embark on nor survive calamitous journey atop the Pacific Ocean, certainly not accompanied by Richard Parker—the Royal Bengal Tiger he bunked on his lifeboat with. Had Pi’s father not scarred him while teaching him the dangers of zoo animals, namely tigers, Pi may have instigated his own death with the anthropomorphizing of