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The Names We Keep

Theme: A story about choosing to remember someone the world has decided to forget

Message: To remember someone the world has decided to forget is not mere sentiment—it is an act of moral courage that affirms the irreducible worth of every human life.

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Cast

• Mina Harker - Protagonist and archivist: a meticulous record-keeper who has spent years quietly assembling testimony about a disgraced revolutionary, refusing to let his memory be erased by official decree. from Dracula (PG #345)
• Sydney Carton - The forgotten man: a brilliant, self-destructive barrister who was publicly condemned, stripped of name and record, and executed by the state—the man Mina is determined to remember and vindicate. from A Tale of Two Cities (PG #98)
• Madame Ernestine Defarge - Primary antagonist: a cold, methodical official of the Erasure Bureau who has personally sanctioned the destruction of Carton's legacy and now hunts Mina to silence the last voice keeping his memory alive. from A Tale of Two Cities (PG #98)
• Gabriel John Utterson - Mina's reluctant ally: a cautious, principled lawyer and old acquaintance of Carton who possesses the one surviving legal document that could restore Carton's name—if he can find the courage to produce it. from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (PG #43)
• Ishmael - Witness and courier: a wandering philosophical sailor who knew Carton in his final days and carries an oral testament of his last words, serving as the living bridge between the dead man and Mina's archive. from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale (PG #2701)
• Kurtz's Intended - Foil and mirror: a woman who has also loved and mourned a man erased by powerful forces, but who has chosen the comfort of sanctioned illusion over dangerous truth—a path Mina is tempted to follow. from Heart of Darkness (PG #219)

Source works

Characters in this book were extracted from the following public-domain works on Project Gutenberg. The AI-generated story is a derivative work; the source texts remain in the public domain.

• Dracula by Bram Stoker (PG #345, public domain)
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (PG #98, public domain)
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (PG #43, public domain)
• Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville (PG #2701, public domain)
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (PG #219, public domain)