Who is Hector from The Vile Village and what is their importance?

Hector is the handyman at the Village of Fowl Devotees and the Baudelaire children's guardian while living in the village. Hector is a quiet, kind man who is too skittish to speak up when the Council abuses him or the Baudelaire children. As a result, Hector and the Baudelaires are forced to perform all of the villagers' chores, no matter how menial. Hector does rebel against the system, however, by housing a variety of banned mechanical objects and books in his barn, such as his self-sustaining hot air mobile home, which he uses to escape from the village at the end of the novel.