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Lucas is a bored, gullible and foolish boy who unscrupulously allows himself to become emtowiled in events through the story. Strangely in the two major events, which dominate the story, it is Benoit, not Lucas or Alex, who is the more scheming character. The actual motives to cut the one tree left in the Cercle and to devise the Molotov cocktails that damaged the derelict building meant to house the Jews comes from Benoit! Equally noteworthy, and contrary to what readers might think of Alex being a troublemaker, Alex actually does very little scheming and stupidly follows Benoit. Benoit is the smooth-talking intelligent extremist right from the start. The very first time readers see him at the gun shop and one of the first things he does is to talk the shopkeeper into selling Lucas the gun. This shows straight away that he is a smooth-talking person. Right at the beginning Benoit tells Lucas, 'We want to act the way he acted, for the good of our country.' (p74) Benoit puts ideas in Lucas' head, as he wants Lucas to look up to him as a role model. 'I'll do anything I can to
Benoit has a motive here; he has not finished with Alex. Another simular event is the visit of Caitlin to see if Lucas could cut more wood for Soeur, Lucas again is taken advantage of as he said, 'Yes, Ok. ' (p127) Most of the time Alex wants to be led; however, there are about two instances where Alex does play a leading role. However, Alex was persistent enough to make Benoit succumb and they returned to survey the damage. Lucas also shows been taken advantage of easily as in the case when the police come to see what the Arabs had stolen and he did not tell them that it was he who took the saw out and cut through the middle of the bench. (p168) Throughout the story Lucas is described and seen as a bored, gullible and foolish boy. He Looking at the three major characters in this essay clearly shows how Lucas is a bored and gullible boy. This paper is the property of findfreeessays. ' (p284) Alex is given to violence, a trait he does not depend upon others to acquire. '(p166) When Lucas tries to get out of cutting the tree, Benoit keeps on urging Lucas 'They fix my chainsaw for me and when they ask me for something, I tell them to get lost'. It was a bit less than I had asked, but I didn't say anything.
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