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  (God Sees The Truth But Waits) Main Characters: 1. Ivan Dimitrich Aksionov (The Protagonist) : A young merchant from Vladimir (Russia) who was sentenced for a crime which he had not committed. A good example of dynamic character 2. Maker Semyonich : (Antagonist) The man who caused Aksionov's sufferings. 3.  Aksionov's wife -------------------------------------------------------------- A Short Summary of the Story : This is a story of an innocent person who had to go through a severe punishment for a murder which he had not committed.  The main character of this story is Ivan Dimitrich Aksionov who was a merchant and used to live in Vladimir (Russia) with his family.  One day he started for Nizhny Fair for business, but his wife requested him not to go because she had a nightmare (very bad or fearful dream) about him. In her dream she had she had seen him returning from fair with all grayed hair. But Aksionov laughed at it and started for fair. On his way, he met an...

The Oval Portrait Main Characters of the Story : 1. The Narrator : (Name not given) badly injured, takes shelter in an abandoned chateau (castle) with his servant 2. Pedro : The servant of the narrator 3. The Painter : a man who paints his wife, but he is so absorbed with his work that he fails to notice that his wife's condition was getting worse, and finally she dies 4. The Woman in the Portrait : wife of the painter,  she becomes the subject of his painting, and finally dies at the end of the story Short Summary :  The story starts with the narrator (name not given) who was badly wounded and injured. With his servant (Pedro), he takes shelter in an abandoned chateau (castle) in the Apennines (mountain range in Italy).They settled in the smallest room which was full of many paintings.  He took interest in the paintings on the wall, looking at them in candle light. There he also found a book on the pillow which gave full information about the paintings there.  A...

  (The Selfish Giant) Main Characters: The Giant  : (The Central Character of the Story. In the beginning of the story he is presented as a selfish one, but by the end we find him as a kind hearted loving character) The Children : (They were the Local Kids) The Little Boy : (Lord Jesus, in disguise) Spring Summer Autumn Winter Forces (Frost, Northwind, Hail) [Note : As this story is in the form of Fairy Tale , so Spring, Summer etc. are also taken as characters and they also have dominant roles.] --------------------------------------------------------------          Plot Summary: This is a story of a selfish giant and a little boy who was a messenger of God. The story takes place in the giant's garden. In his (giant's) long absence, local kids used to visit the garden and play. But when the giant returned, he became very angry seeing the children playing in his garden. He stopped them form playing there and built a huge wall all over the garden w...