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The Narrator (Ma Feng-Jian) (chinese characters horse, sword, bell) Luo The Little Seamstress The Tailor The Headman of the village Four-Eyes Four-Eyes's Mother The Old Miller The Cripple and his gang The Villagers The Old Preacher The Doctor (gynaecologist)
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The narrator and Luo are best friends that are being re-educated in a small village during the time period that China was communist under Mao Zedong. The villagers do not try to hard to re-educate them, just make them do work. Though the headman does try to blackmail them. They meet the Little Seamstress, daughter of the Tailor , who is beautiful and has many admirers like the cripple and his gang. They become good friends with her and she became Luo's girlfriend. They knew Four-Eyes even though he was being re-educated in a different village. He had illegal books, such as Balzac. He agreed to give them books if they helped him so they came up with a scheme that involved tricking an old miller. When Four-Eyes's mother comes to get him the two boys steal the books. Later on the narrator has to trade some books to get help from a doctor that he found thanks to a dying preacher.
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Balzac (Luo's favorite) -Pere Goriot -Eugenie Grandet -Ursule Mirouet (given to doctor in payment) (first book given to them by Four-Eyes, all others are stolen) -Cousin Pons -Colonel Chabert Romain Rolland <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">-Jean-Christophe<span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(given to doctor as a tip) (narrator's favorite) Alexandre Dumas -The Count of Monte Cristo <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Gustave Flaubert <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">-Madame Bovary Victor Hugo -The Hunchback of Notre Dame <span style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0);">Gogol Melville <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fu Lei (translator)
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