Lina Vilkas Elena Vilkas Andrius Jonas Vilkas
Character
Lina Vilkas
- Protagonist
- long wavy honey coloured hair
- Bright blue eyes
- Headstrong
- Was accepted into art school
- Loves to write letters to her cousin Joana and drawing in her sketch book
- Keeps her hope alive by living in her memories
- gets deported to the Artic Circle but wants to go back to Altai to be with Andruis and find her father
- While on the train to the Artic Circle Lina writes to Andruis and hides them in the Dickens book Andruis gave her for her sixteenth birthday
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Elena Vilkas
- Lina and Jonas's mother
- Married to Kostas Vilkas
- Long honey colored hair
- Goes out of her way to help everybody
- Is made to teach children in Russian, even though many of them didn't speak it
- Is deported to the Artic Circle because they helped their cousins escape to Germany
- Becomes very weak and confused in the Artic Circle and usually gives her bread rations to her children
- Becomes very ill and weak when she hears that Kostas has been shot in a prison, and Lina must try to carry her back to the hut
- Falls sick and dies
Jonas Vilkas
- Lina's ten year old brother
- Has blonde hair
- He wets his pants when the guards tried to take him away, but his mother paid a pocket watch to keep him
- Becomes friends with Andruis who teaches him to smoke
- Works on making shoes with two old Siberian women
- gets very ill from scurvy, and is nursed back to health by the tomatoes Andruis brings him
- a girl spits up blood onto his jacket and his mother throws it through the toilet hole
- Clings to his mothers side like the small young boy when his mother is sick
- Falls sick with scurvy, healed by a doctor
Andruis
- 17 year-old
- Wavy brown hair, and blue eyes
- Hazel eyes
- Stays close to his mother
- When they reach Altai Andruis's mother is made to sleep with the guards or they would kill Andruis
- Sneaks extra food to Jonas to give to his family and their friends around the camp
- stays behind in Altai
- keeps all Lina's drawings when she goes to the Artic Circle
- Marries Lina
Mrs. Azkyas
- Pretty women
- Is made to sleep with guards or they would kill her son
- steals Vodka and other treats from the N.K.V.D
Mr. Stalas
- Bald bitter hearted man
- Jumps off the back of the truck on the first day and breaks his leg
- Tells everyone their all gonna die
- Jewish
- Is on the list and is deported to the Artic Circle
- Tells Lina that the thing keeping him from killing himself is fear
Mrs. Rimas
- Liberian
- Receives a letter saying her husband is alive but is starving like them
- Deported to Artic Circle
- Tends to the sick in their hut
Mrs. Gryas
- School teaches
- Helps Elena with lesson plans
- Isn't on the list and stays in Altai alone
Kretzsky
- N.K.V.D officer
- Seems rude to Lina
- Gives mother a ride home in the dark
- Gives Lina wood
- Hates himself, Mother died when he was 5 and his father remariied when he was 6. His step mother hates him.
- Lets Lina steal wood
- Sends the doctor to the camp, which save Jonas
janina
- Small young girl with a dolly
- Is on the List and is deported to the Artic Circle
- Mother tries to strangle her
- Talks to Liale, her dead dolly
- Finds a dead owl that they eat
- falls ill with scurvy
- Doesn't die
- Protagonist
- long wavy honey coloured hair
- Bright blue eyes
- Headstrong
- Was accepted into art school
- Loves to write letters to her cousin Joana and drawing in her sketch book
- Keeps her hope alive by living in her memories
- gets deported to the Artic Circle but wants to go back to Altai to be with Andruis and find her father
- While on the train to the Artic Circle Lina writes to Andruis and hides them in the Dickens book Andruis gave her for her sixteenth birthday
-
Elena Vilkas
- Lina and Jonas's mother
- Married to Kostas Vilkas
- Long honey colored hair
- Goes out of her way to help everybody
- Is made to teach children in Russian, even though many of them didn't speak it
- Is deported to the Artic Circle because they helped their cousins escape to Germany
- Becomes very weak and confused in the Artic Circle and usually gives her bread rations to her children
- Becomes very ill and weak when she hears that Kostas has been shot in a prison, and Lina must try to carry her back to the hut
- Falls sick and dies
Jonas Vilkas
- Lina's ten year old brother
- Has blonde hair
- He wets his pants when the guards tried to take him away, but his mother paid a pocket watch to keep him
- Becomes friends with Andruis who teaches him to smoke
- Works on making shoes with two old Siberian women
- gets very ill from scurvy, and is nursed back to health by the tomatoes Andruis brings him
- a girl spits up blood onto his jacket and his mother throws it through the toilet hole
- Clings to his mothers side like the small young boy when his mother is sick
- Falls sick with scurvy, healed by a doctor
Andruis
- 17 year-old
- Wavy brown hair, and blue eyes
- Hazel eyes
- Stays close to his mother
- When they reach Altai Andruis's mother is made to sleep with the guards or they would kill Andruis
- Sneaks extra food to Jonas to give to his family and their friends around the camp
- stays behind in Altai
- keeps all Lina's drawings when she goes to the Artic Circle
- Marries Lina
Mrs. Azkyas
- Pretty women
- Is made to sleep with guards or they would kill her son
- steals Vodka and other treats from the N.K.V.D
Mr. Stalas
- Bald bitter hearted man
- Jumps off the back of the truck on the first day and breaks his leg
- Tells everyone their all gonna die
- Jewish
- Is on the list and is deported to the Artic Circle
- Tells Lina that the thing keeping him from killing himself is fear
Mrs. Rimas
- Liberian
- Receives a letter saying her husband is alive but is starving like them
- Deported to Artic Circle
- Tends to the sick in their hut
Mrs. Gryas
- School teaches
- Helps Elena with lesson plans
- Isn't on the list and stays in Altai alone
Kretzsky
- N.K.V.D officer
- Seems rude to Lina
- Gives mother a ride home in the dark
- Gives Lina wood
- Hates himself, Mother died when he was 5 and his father remariied when he was 6. His step mother hates him.
- Lets Lina steal wood
- Sends the doctor to the camp, which save Jonas
janina
- Small young girl with a dolly
- Is on the List and is deported to the Artic Circle
- Mother tries to strangle her
- Talks to Liale, her dead dolly
- Finds a dead owl that they eat
- falls ill with scurvy
- Doesn't die