Lost In Rome Character Analysis

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In the fictional story “Lost in Rome” the main theme is, the person you think does something sometimes turns out to be who we didn't expect. The name of the book is “Lost in Rome” by, Cindy Callaghan and takes place in Rome,Italy.The main characters are Lucy, AJ, Aunt Maria,Gianna,and Ricardo, Lucy and Gianna go to Rome,Italy to visit their aunt Maria at her pizza restaurant.Lucy learns the culprit she thinks sabotaging the pizza restaurant is not the culprit, by the end of the book Lucy solves the mystery of who is sabotaging the pizza restaurant and why.

One of the characters was Aunt Maria, who was a main character, she impressed me because,she was very friendly and had a positive attitude as well as a very loving person. She impressed me in many ways ,In the story it states that,”What do we owe you? Nothing I would do anything for Maria .”(pg.119) This explains aunt maria characterizations because,the lady at the shop did not want to take the money from Lucy , because she was her niece. Aunt Maria must have done something that was very kind hearted of her that the lady at the shop must have felt the Maria doesn't have to pay her for groceries or anything else. `Another example is , “ I love your Aunt Maria she is really very kind and sweet.”(pg.53.) The cook who works at the pizzeria is stating, he loves Maria, becuase she is a very kind boss.It also proves that, Maria treats all her workes kindly and
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The characters learn the them in a few different ways, Lucy learns by, in the story it states that Lucy thinks Lorenzo is the one who is sabotaging the pizzeria, but later with the use of evidence finds out it is Salvador.(pg. 156)She learns the theme because, she thought that Lorenzo was sabotaging the restaurant because his actions led and were suspicious. She then found out it was not him , the theme states

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