All charac-ters must have at least some human qualities, however; such as the ability tothink, to feel pain, or to fall in love.
do all characters have these qualities?
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how the text shapes our interpretationof, and· degre,e of sympathy or admiration for, the character; what function thecharacter serves_ in the·:narrative;·and what the character might represent
the last bit of this passage (function and representation of character) reminds me of one of my high school english teachers. she encouraged abstract thinking and forced us to look deeper into the characters in the books we read through assignments.
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one in which each person,gesture, and word is a meaningful part of a coherent, purposeful design_
this is a dramatic way to describe life...
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fig-ure out what makes them tick and how they might react if circumstances· changed.
i feel like i don't often do this, but maybe its already ingrained from my years of education.
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scapegoat
they don't explain this term
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A truly original.flat character with only oneor two very-distinctive traits or behavioral or verbal tics will often prove morememorable than a round one.
it would be interesting to see if this statement holds up across different types of literature from different cultures
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Terms like fiat and round or dynamic and static are useful so long as we·do·notlet them harden into value judgments
in other words, don't judge a book by its cover
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minor characters, the figures who fill out the story
minor characters can have a huge impact in fiction. i think about the mama odie from princess and the frog. she inspires tiana to look deeper inside herself, and ultimately fall in love with naveen, breaking the spell
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Often, the characters we initially find least likable or admirable may ultimatelymove and teach us the most.
learning from others mistakes or vices is good for development.
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an antihero, as thename implies, possesses traits that make him or her the opposite of a traditionalhero
i've heard of an antihero but i've never had it described to me.
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antagonist
bad person
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protagonis
good person
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admirable characters who do .not play leading roles.
ordinary people are cool too.
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hero, the '1good guy,
heroes aren't always male, and heroines is an gender-exclusive way of categorizing female-presenting characters.
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A character is any personage in a literary work who acts, appears, or is referredto as playing a part.
definition of a character
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·You may knoW almost nothing aboutCharles Dickens, but you probably have a vivid sense· of his characters EbenezerScrooge and Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol· (1843)
art separated from the artist. that's how you know it's a good book
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"force the writerto tell their stories" because "they want to get out.
interesting way of perceiving characters in stories. Is this true?
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