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This paper is aimed at investigating into possibility of education of understanding characters in novels using a parallel curriculum. For this, the stages and methods of the education of understanding characters in novels which fits for each characteristic of students were examined through parallelism of core curriculum and identity curriculum. The current education of understanding characters in schools only hands down the knowledge of understanding and appreciation which are organized in reference books to most students, not leading to a profound understanding of character. Accordingly, this study aims to identify the correlationship between parallel curriculum model and education of understanding characters through focusing questions of PCM; to connect internal factors of the education of understanding characters with contents of core curriculum; and to design the plans for the education of understanding characters by relating external factors of the education of understanding characters to identity curriculum. The internal factors of the education of understanding characters includes objective information of characters, viewing attitude towards characters, and roles of characters in fictional works, and as external factor, there are learners who interpret the works. This study is intended to contribute in helping learners create character-related knowledge and actively appreciate novels through parallelism of core curriculum and identity curriculum where concept discovery for an understanding of characters progresses along with education fit for learners' characteristics at the same time.