Which character, in your opinion, is the most admirable?

Which character , in your opinion , is the most admirable

The three stories here depict a common theme of sadness in the lives of the main characters . `Tuesday Siesta ' is the tale of a proud woman and her daughter who visit a small , dusty town during the intense heat of a Tuesday afternoon . They have come for the express purpose of visiting the town 's cemetery , where a week earlier the woman 's son had been buried after being shot during a robbery attempt . The heart of the story is an interview between the

mother and the village priest , who controls the keys to the cemetery . In the short story `The Rocking-Horse Winner D .H . Lawrence presents an upper class family that was destroyed by greed because they always felt like no matter how much money they had , they always needed more . Neither the mother nor the father showed his or her love for the children and they were both greedy . Their greed consumed and corrupted their innocent children which ended in tragedy and death This story 's main theme is that greed destroys all in its path , and sometimes gets in the way of the truth and takes the place of love a young boy named Paul perceives . That there is never enough money in his family he sets out to find a way to get money through luck . He discovers that if he rides his rocking-horse fast enough , he will somehow "know " the name of the winning horse in the next race . He begins to make money and secretly funnel this money to his mother , but the desire for more money only grows more intense instead of going away . He finally rides his rocking-horse so furiously in to discover the winner of the Derby that he falls into illness and dies , just as the winning horse earns his family an enormous fortune . On the other hand `And of Clay Are We Created ' tells of the life-story of a newscaster named Rolf Carly who attempted to rescue a girl named Azucena from the tremendous mudslides that have buried the entire towns and killed more than twenty thousand people during a volcanic eruption which has created enough heat to melt the ice on the mountain slopes . Many volunteered to help Azucena get out of the mire but when volunteers were unable to throw a rope to her , Rolf wades up to his waist in the mud to tie the rope under her arms himself . He smiles a charming smile and assures her that she will soon be out and safe . Throughout his professional life as a journalist , he has taken extraordinary risks , choosing to cover wars and natural disasters and placing himself in danger

Life is a battle not against flesh and blood but against its harsh realities . Having studied well the three stories stated above , I have seen different criteria by which the three characters can be judged for admiration . First , I consider their character as a person as...