Character Development

Boualem Yekker is a book store owner who is an outcast to society. Books and art are against society because any creativity or imagination is against the new world order. Books would make people question too many things and questioning anything is questioning God. Gradually his life begins to fall apart. It starts with being stoned and ridiculed by children and adults every time he sees the light of day. He looses the love of his family day by day, and he eventually gets kicked out of his very own society and his book store is forced to shut down. This shows how strong minded of a person Yekker was, because no matter what happened to him he stuck to his beliefs and stuck to his morals and would never changed just because a group of people think he should.