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Character Role Analysis

Gabriel and Francisco

When Gabriel comes into the picture, we meet a guy with passion galore. He's fired up about missing his family while he's working in the fields, and he's not about to let his bosses push him around—he even stands up to the labor contractor when he's being disrespected, which is pretty impressive.

Francisco doesn't normally get as fired up as Gabriel—and all of Gabriel's passion shows us just how much Francisco goes about his days without really pushing against the system. At all. But every once in a while our main man gets some fire in him too, like when he stands up to Carlos, the meanest bully on the block. This burst of passion lets us know that these two blokes have more in common than meets the eye.