41.   The main characters in the books become increasingly aware of how the society they live in is destroying life as we know it now.

42.   One such person is Rick Deckard, the main character in the story, together with his wife Iran.

43.   Carrie, properly named Carrieta White, who is the main character in this book, is a young rather ugly girl of sixteen.

44.   There are two main supporting characters that feature prominently in each book -- Shug in The Color Purple and Dallas in The Outsiders.

45.   The result is that the main characters in la Recherche are not by any means all of a piece.

46.   Also like the main character, he is a night owl.

47.   Although the main characters are fictional, the things they see and experience have a basis in fact.

48.   Although there are eight main characters, others may join along the way.

49.   And death is very much the main character.

50.   And its main character, a Regency period Cinderella named Fanny Brice, is passive and restrained, hardly the kind of heroine in which movies delight.