Question

character sketch of jacopo........mention only jacopo not nicola..

Answer 1

Jacopo, the younger one, barely came up to the door handle of the car. He was nearly 12. He was wearing a shortened army tunic gathered in loose folds about his skinny frame.

 At such a young age they had shouldered the responsibilities of looking after their sister after losing their father in the war. Though younger, he worked equally hard with his elder brother to earn enough to pay the medical expenses of her ill sister.

Since quite young he was, he was not as secretive as Nicola. When the author asked the two brothers if he could do anything for them, he immediately asked the author to take them to Poleta, the village where his sister had been admitted. Nicola did not like it as it might reveal their secret to the author.