Samson,
the apparently deaf-mute slave who Rosh steals from a passing caravan, is important to the
action andin . He plays an important role in the action because when Daniel
stages a risky effort to free Joel from the Romans, Samson jumps in to help without Daniel's
knowledge. If it had not been for Samson's intervention, Daniel would probably have been killed
in the fight and Joel would not have been freed and in fact might have suffered a worse fate
than what he already faced.
As far as characterization, Samson parallels
both the character of Daniel and the character of Jesus. As such, he is not exactly a foil, but
something like a foil. A foil is a character who makes the qualities of a main character stand
out more clearly because of the way he contrasts with the character. In the case of how Samson
enhances the characterization of Daniel and Jesus, however, it is his similarities rather
than...
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