Pia Dante Angelico Character Analysis

An eight-year-old girl who is orphaned when her father, José Angelico, is killed in a police interrogation. Pia is abandoned in the city graveyard by her foster family after her father fails to show up there, but she survives because some street kids feel sorry for her and they feed her scraps of food. Raphael, Gardo, and Rat meet Pia when they find her half-starved and waiting for her father by her family gravestone. Pia is too young to realize that her father hid the fortune he stole from the corrupt Senator Zapanta in a grave marked with Pia’s name. After finding this money, the boys take Pia under their wing, and she escapes with them to a better life at the end of the story—just as her father wished.