Saturday, November 3, 2018

If Santiago is the main character in The Alchemist, who is the foil and why?

Santiago
is the main character, or the , in as much as he is in the story more than any other character
and because it his story that we follow. We travel alongside him and watch him develop into a
more mature, enlightened individual.

A foil character, who may also be at
the same time a protagonist, is a character who is in one important way, at least, very
different from the, or another, protagonist. The function of the foil character is to emphasize
by contrast the opposite trait in the, or another, protagonist. For...


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