Into The Beautiful North Characters

There are many great qualities in a successful book, but in my opinion, something that stands out is the characters. The characters in this novel have many obstacles that they face all throughout the book. The novel Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea the characters Tacho, Nayeli, Don Porfirio, Doña Araceli, Atómiko, and others all face cruelness because of different reasons. For example Tacho is gay, so he faces different obstacles than Atomikos who was raised in the dumps.
For example, Tacho is one of the main characters that face many obstacles. The beginning of the book talks about how Tacho is one of the few men left in the town after most of the men left to go find work in the United States. Tacho owns a restaurant called the fallen hand which makes sense because he is gay. He is the only gay guy in this novel and has many obstacles because of it. One instance on their way to the border they stopped at the station. There the FeFe called Tacho a “male prostitute” and a “Faggot” multiple times (Urrea 81). He forced Tacho to go to the bathroom with him, and there he called him a “dirty little faggot” and …show more content…
The characters in this novel have many obstacles that they face all throughout the book. The novel Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea the characters Tacho was one of the few men left in their town and was also the only guy that is gay, Nayeli has grown up waiting for her father to return or send letters from where he was working in the United States, but later found out that he moved on and got married, Don Porfirio and Doña Araceli are both poor people who live in a shack beside a large hill of trash, Atómiko has spent his entire life fighting for what is his and has lived at the hill of trash his whole life, and others who also face cruelness because of different reasons. These characters all come together to make this a great well put together