My favourite character in Village by the sea

My favourite character in Village By The Sea is Lila. She is the older sister of Bela and Kamal and takes over a parenting role in her dysfunctional family. Although she has an severely ill mother and a irresponsible father, she is resilient and is often concerned over the bleak future of she and her family. Out of all her qualities throughout the book, i would just be discussing three of her qualities:filial piety, dutifulness and frugality. Lila is a filial daughter.This is evident from"She stopped to add a little extra milk to it" and "Lila lift her head and help her drink in little sips from the tumbler". From this, we can deduce that Lila was very filial towards her mother. This can be seen from the way she fed the mother and even added extra milk in the tumbler before letting her mother drink when milk was so expensive and precious to them. Lila is also a dutiful sister. This is evident from" She made them tea" and " stay home and do the cooking and washing and look after the others". From the evidence, we can say that Lila is a dutiful sister as she is fully aware with her family's situation and has no choice but to take on the "mother" role in the family.She also performs her daily chores and duties without complaint. Lila is also frugal. This is evident in"Lila was not used to being rich."and "she bought some jaola."From the evidence provided, we can conclude that she is frugal as she bought the cheapest fish one could find even with the amount of money Hari gave her. In conclusion, Lila is a filial, dutiful and frugal daughter, sister and "mother" respectively.I admire her because of her array of qualities displayed throughout the book which helped her through the obstacles in her life.