The characters are:

Dr. Lazaro (himself)

Ben Lazaro (his son)
Mrs. Lazaro (his wife)
Pedro Esteban (the father of a week-old baby who died from tetanus)
Esteban's week-old baby
An old man, old woman and a ten year old boy was also mentioned in the story
Lesson in Life

In the story it shows that Dr. Lazaro is emotionally and objective detached, as
required by his profession.
As a doctor he inherit the power to either save or heal the patient and allow the
effects of disease to snuff life are perhaps the reason why he had emotionally
detached.
In this case it’s also one thing why Dr. Lazaro loses his faith to God, especially
because of certain critical events in his life.
Not only this could be the factor why he loses his faith, as a doctor, exposed to
seeing patients undergo traumatic pain and deep suffering, that make his feeling
numb.
It shows how weak he is as a doctor that he could not do anything in order to save
the lives of his patients, and even more when his son committed suicide and he
even done anything in order to save the life of his son.
As human we always tend to blame God on the things that happen in our lives
especially the negative one and it usually leads to lose our faith to God.
The things that we could not handle in our life are the reasons why we do not trust
God, we think that God is punishing us because of our sins, but there’s a reason
why these things are happening to our lives.
In our life there are things that might not happen the way we want to be. Every
circumstance, situations in our lives has a reason. We should take it positively and
Godly. God knows what is best for us even though it hurt us. In the story it seems
that time those not exist for Dr. Lazaro, for time to exist there must be a change.
At the end of the story time already exist in the life of Dr. Lazaro as his son Ben
open his faith to God again. In our life God will use an instrument that will
represent him to be our guide and help in every struggle in our life. God will never
leave us and we will never walk alone because God is always there for us. We
must always think that God has a better plan than ours.