Characteristic of characters.

• SWAMINATHAN

The plot of Swami and Friends revolves around Swaminathan, the central protagonist, who initially typifies the innocence of youth and all mischievous that childhood entails. He prefers cricket to school, take his family for granted, and attempts to play out childhood fantasies in the often reckless gamesand stunts he pursues with his shifting group of friends. Initially coming across as passive and timid more likely to follow then to lead the crowd and overshadowed amongst his peers by the more self assured Mani and Rajam, swaminathan, however, become bolder and more socially prominent over the course of the novel. The most vital player ont the cricket team, it is ultimately swaminathan, and not Rajam or Mani.