Ukrainian literature has an important characteristic – we always need to have an emotional victim, and it must be young kind and hardworking person. It is like a symbol of the Ukrainian nation: we are good and Destiny tests us to give us a better life awards. It is still one of the main characteristics of Ukrainians, and of course, there is at least one character like this in all our stories from the folk narratives to modern novels.
Usually this character is represented as young girl, who is an orphan and now she must work hard for a survival for her stepmother or distant relatives. This girl has these characteristics.
