5
Cha:acter
a
variety of
identities, Character
can be
developed and become
more
comp1elc He
has many
kinds of
personality
traits
wr.ich
fo:mulate
him
to
become
a
complete
character
and
Mino!" Character
There
are some classifications of cha!-actcrs in
terms
of their
function in
the
mostly complex and
is f.:Hy developed
otherwise
he is not concerned
by readers,
(
Forste:in Kirszner &
Mendel.!,
2000
:
93 ).
character is a ch<iracter that
the author
focuses
on,
He
appears
most
of the
in
the story and in
it
he
or she
usually
is
the
most important
characteL
In
the
writer's opinior:, ThePe¥1has Kina as
its
rr:ain character,
because
Kino
is the
character
determines the plot of the story,
appears
mostly in
every chapteL
In
other
words,
Ki11o
is
the
ce11tra!
cynosure
of
the
story,
Kino's
personality traits
change
after
the
pearl's
discovery: from
a
person
who
is friendly
and
ca:m to
a
bad-tru nnered
person
who !las an
uncontrolled
ambition.
The
rest
of
the
characters are
called
minor
characters.
They
have a
tendency
to
be called flat characters
because they have no significant cha:1ges in their
behaviour.
The fullowing is
statement
of .Kirszr:er &
Mendell (
2000
)
:
"Minor
characters
are frequently
not
well developed,
Often they are flat,
perhaps acting as foils for the
protagonist".
(
p,94)
There
are
so
many
minor
characters
in
The
PearL
that
are
classified
in
te=s
of
their
functional
gradation,
They
are
Juana,
Coyotito,
Juan
Tomas,
Apolonia,
doctor,
the
doctor's seiVant, neighbours, beggars,
buyers, priest,
strangers
and
the
trackers.
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