The Characters In The Bridge To San Luis Rey

The bridge to San Luis Rey is a tragic story where all of the main characters are unaware that when they die, they will all have something in common. All of the people walking across the bridge that day had the choice to go where they were going when they attempted to cross the bridge. No one made them but they had the free will to do so. As brother Juniper was studying the lives of these five people, he thought that it was important to compare and contrast each of their lives and everything that could have made these people die at the same time on the same bridge. He soon found out that these people all had something in common. A few of the characters had thought they knew about love but in reality, they were still learning. Their fate kept those people from learning everything about love and their free will lead them to that bridge where their lives were ended soon after.

PART ONE:

On July 20, 1714 five people were caught in a tragic accident and died. By fate, a man by the name of Brother
He lived on his own and worked any job that he could get by errands, distributed handbills, worked with horses, trained snakes and bears for circuses, cooked, and made money by spreading rumors. He lived alone until he reached his twenties and found a poor girl named Micaela Villegas who was only twelve years old. Free will made him want to take her under his wing and teach her everything about preforming. When she grew older, she was the best in Peru and grew to be very beautiful. After more time she had three children by the viceroy, but free will made her begin having affairs with other men after getting bored of the viceroy. As time passes Micaela Villegas takes on small pox and becomes ill. Uncle Pio offers to take one of her children and train him as he trained her in the past. Fate made uncle Pio and the boy cross the bridge and the right moment and they soon fall and die