Aram (the narrator)

Aram is the nine-year-old narrator who looks back on this childhood summer with warmth and nostalgia. He is honest at heart and deeply conscious of his family's proud reputation, which is why the sight of the horse fills him with both joy and unease. He is mad about horses — "my first longings had been longings to ride" — and it is this passion that leads him to ride the stolen horse and even to beg Mourad to keep it longer. Yet his conscience is never far away: he keeps asking Mourad where he stole the horse, and he knows, deep down, that keeping it would be wrong. Aram is imaginative …