Stacey
As far as I am concerned, Michele isn’t a flawless hero. Nobody is completely perfect. Although Michele has strong moral convictions, the entire community of Aqua Traverse does not have. He also has his own defect, such as his greedy (for) things and disloyalty and betrayal to filippo.
At the beginning of story, when Michele discovers Filippo, he doesn’t show any normal feelings. He just think the boy in the hole is his because he finds him firstly, which just like skull decided” finders keeper.” (Unlike others, Michele does not show any apparent fear towards the boy in the hole. Instead he is intrigued by this boy and wanted to further discover any secretes behind this.). From that we can see that Michele, at the beginning of the story, is a little bit greedy and vain. He wants to keep his own discovery as a secret, because he is afraid that skull take away and show off his discovery to others. He is just like a selfish little boy who gets a new toys and don’t want to share with others. His behaviour and thoughts reveals the weakness of his character, greed. Being a part of human nature, a sense of greed is almost inevitable in every human. There is no denying that initially filliop is regarded as an interesting toy by Michele. Even if, later Michele becomes good friend with filliop and brings food and water to filiop.
Michele has the ability to develop a great insight for the things in his surroundings. His perception and his sense of maturity has lead him to a ‘right’ path in life. The morale embedded in him gives him the ability to distinguish right from wrong despite being only a young boy. However, it doesn’t mean that he is a flawless person. He still can’t stand the lure of many things.
From the novel, I also can see that Michele was really jealous of salavatore having excellent toys . Whereas, compared to his own situation, he just has a stupid Venetian boat to put on the