The Musician’s Daughter
By Susan Dunlap
Theresa is the main character in my book. She has to deal with her father being murdered, being in love with a co-musician of his, her perverted uncle, and her mother trying to marry her off. She is a strong person, even in the face of death. When her dead father was brought home, she didn’t faint when she saw the body. She wanted to find out the cause of his death, a decision that would fuel the rest of the book.
Theresa was determined. In the beginning of the book, her father’s co-musicians would only tell her bits and pieces of the story of his death. She kept asking them, and when they entrusted her with a secret about her father’s stand for the gypsies (nomadic people who didn’t have any rights). She still wanted to know more. Another example is that when she was younger and her father was teaching her the viola, her mother said that it wasn’t proper. Yet she kept playing despite her mother’s warnings.
Theresa was also brave. When wandering into a camp full of gypsies, she wasn’t scared at all. She was with Zolton (the one who she loves) though. The second time, she was all by herself. The third time was when her uncle traps her in his cellar; she sits in a boat full of rats and garbage to float out on a river of human waste. This tunnel leads back to the gypsie camp. Where she finds that her father was murdered in that same cellar, and traveled in the same boat that she was in. When finding her younger brother, starving, beaten, and standing face to face with her uncle, she still finds words to comfort him.
Theresa is also an idealist. She hopes for Zolton to fall in love with her, for her father to be alive, proper rights and fairness to the gypsies, and to be able to play in a real orchestra. The first one does come true, though not at first. The second one could never come true, despite her constant worrying. The proper rights are given to the gypsies. She was not allowed to play in an full orchestra or in front of other people, it just wouldn’t be right for a woman at that time in history. These are some of the characteristics for Theresa.
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