Some Characters We Met

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We started to get to know Will. What about the other characters? So far we met some of them. Let's look.


WILL’S MOTHER


 We don’t know much about his mother. She suffers from rheumatism, had an unhappy marriage. In his memories, she is faded, tired. She was a priest’s daughter.

WILL’S SISTER, MAUD


 She lived her life surrounded by the adoptive responsibilities. Will thinks that if they would hear Will’s relationships with these two woman, they just could not understand why he did something like that.




MARY SAROJINI MACPHAIL
 A little girl from the island. Mary and his brother Tom are the first people which Will met in Pala. Mary is a very clever girl, she shows Will that the way he comes to Pala is not important. She says that if he talk about the things he fears, they will not be able to scare him anymore.

 His father died from a mountain-climbing accident only a couple months ago.



DR. ROBERT MACPHAIL


 After Will meets Mary, her grandfather Dr. Macphail comes. He is in his late fifties. He seems like a well-dressed, tiny man. It is not easy to say for Will how much of him is still an Scottish man and how much he turned into a real Palanese?

 He explains that the birds are yelling at them to remind them it is important to get attention to attention. Doctor talks about them like they are very normal things, but Will has some hard times to understand this very usual things in Pala.

 The first MacPhail of Pala came into it under the Old Raja's grandfather—the Raja of the Reform. Between them, he and Robert’s great-grandfather invented modern Pala.


VIJAYA BHATTACHARYA       


 He is helping Dr. Macphail with the studies they conduct in the Agricultural Experimental Station.




MURUGAN MAILENDRA


 The present Raja of Pala. A young man who is here temporarily. They are working on plants together. In fact Will knew him already. Before a couple days and the island, they were together in Colonel Dipa's car in Rendang. Colonel Dipa sounds like an important man. Will doesn’t let the others understand that they have met before. Mailendra doesn’t want them to know that.


 Will is curious about Colonel Dipa and Mailendra’s affair. Does he admire him because of his strength? Does he have another feelings for him? These are the questions we haven’t answer yet.


 He is a very handsome young man. But is inside of him as impressive as his physical appereance?


 When he is 18, he will rule Pala. He is very excited about it, he wants to change how it works in the island. With Crusade of the Spirit, he is planning to change a lot in Pala. Industrialization for the country's sake, he says. There are the things he and his mother want to do and they are going to do them by hiding behind the idea of the good of Pala.


 He is hateful to the current regime, he is eager to change everything immediately.


COLONEL DIPA


 A dictator who had carried out a successful revolution, liquidated the opposition.





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