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* Eriond in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' and ''[[The Malloreon]]''. He's a small child in the former, although he is very trusting and generous. (He's been raised to be a complete innocent, so that he can handle The Orb, which tends to destroy anyone who touches it with less than completely pure motives.) By ''The Malloreon'' he's grown into the position. He's very mild in temperament, and even when he gets very angry (at one point they're in a Temple of Torak and a major sacrifice ritual (human, of course) is going on all he does is put out the temple fires—since if the hearts can't be burned, there's no way to continue the sacrifices.)

* Finny in ''[[A Separate Peace]]'', who never sees anyone as an enemy, and believes that "when you really love something, then it has to love you back, in whatever way it has to love." Many readers (and English teachers) see him as a [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|Christ figure]].

* ''[[Les Misérables (novel)|Les Misérables]]'': Jean Valjean, who in turn learned forgiveness from the Bishop of Digne after 19 years of prison made Valjean bitter and hateful.

* Samuel Pickwick, Esq. from ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]''. It's the main reason he's funny.