Essay on An Analysis of Hilton's Lost Horizon

Characteristics are a major part of anyones’ life. In a Fantasy novels that authors use to different characteristics to write with. The text is usually consists of mythical creatures and magical adventures which help with the development of character.

This desire for company and to live her dream, can be seen in her final scene when she confides in Lennie, telling him about her longing for someone to talk too and the tragic story of marrying someone she does not love. "I don 't like Curley. He ain 't a nice fella."

A character is someone portrayed in a novel, play, or movie that represents an person. An author can create characters in many ways to show the emotional, mental, and physical characteristics of that individual. An author has an infinite amount of choices of how he or she can construct characters. Zadie Smith does just that in “The Girl with Bangs.” In “The Girl with Bangs,” Smith represents the narrator as a normal college student that falls in love with a girl, named Charlotte because of her bangs. This representation sets up a series of conflict when Charlotte’s boyfriend, Maurice, moves and Charlotte hooks up with the narrator. Maurice then moves back months later to find out that she has cheated on him with the narrator and another unknown male. The narrator later finds out that Charlotte has cheated on her with the unknown guy and then was going to choose Maurice over her, which causes a small fight about who should actually have her. This gets resolved when she shaves her head in spite of all three men. Maurice is the only one who still wants her. The narrator has clear motivation about why she wants Charlotte, she is a dynamic character, and she is a round character.

Character descriptions are used to give a first and usually last impression of a character. The novel "Lord of the Flies" is a typical example. When Ralph is first mentioned he is described as a big solid boy who is confident when he talks, which indicates the qualities of a leader. As soon as Piggy is introduced he starts suggesting witty ideas that are thrown back in his face, which parallel throughout the novel. Piggy is also described as a fat little boy with asthma and glasses, which indicates straight away that he will be stereotypical of society and be cast away as a nobody. There is significant conflict between Jack and Ralph in the first chapter which also continues to grow throughout the novel. A character profile is used to involve the reader and give a character more depth into their personality thus creating a more intense storyline.

Mr. Lorry braces Lucie for a shock: her father is not dead. He has been found, though he's a shell of his former self. Manette is now in the care of a former servant in Paris, and Mr. Lorry tells the astonished Lucie that he and she are going to go to Paris so that she can "restore [her father] to life."

“Hills Like White Elephants”, by Ernest Hemingway, is a short story published in 1927 that takes place in a train station in Spain with a man and a woman discussing an operation. Most of the story is simply dialogue between the two characters, the American and Jig. This couple is at a critical point in their lives when they must decide whether or not to have an abortion. Certain themes arise from this story such as choices and consequences, doubt and ambiguity, and how men and women relate. Hemingway also uses many examples of symbolism in “Hills Like White Elephants”, including descriptions of the surrounding scenery, the hills themselves, and the station where the action takes place.

It is the characters that make a story and they are what convey the feeling needed for the message contained in the story. Any great writing that contains characters provides their full, rounded personalities. These personal descriptions are averaged to form the classification of each person introduced. The “good guys,” the “bad guys” and all the other titles are classifications. In example, there were many types of characters in Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” Among these are the main protagonists, antagonists, and prophetic characters.

Personality types which can be seen in contemporary society can also be seen very clearly with regard to the characters in the ward setting:

There are many types of characters in a story. Some are easy to spot while other may be a little harder. Round, flat, static, dynamic and stock are all different types of characters. Round characters are the characters we learn the most about. We learn how they live and every aspect between including their thoughts and what makes them keep going. Flat characters are the ones we learn much of nothing about. This could be the lawn person to the cousin that drops in. These characters help fill in gaps so we can learn more about the round characters. Dynamic characters are usually the ones who experience some type of change in the story. They appear a certain way at the beginning and by the end they have made some type of change in their life good or bad. This change can be a little change such as realizing something was not what they thought to a big change such as a change in their career or marriage. Static characters are those who end with the same attitude and perspective they had at the beginning. These are the ones who show no change and learn nothing during the story.

Loomis has grown since he is urging her non stop about planting beats and wheat which she did and after that she was wondering how they would harvest the wheat without a mill. Mr. Loomis wanted to sit on the porch so Ann grabbed a chair with a matching foot stool and helped him outside, but once on the porch his knees buckled on him before he reached the chair. She wanted to get to know more about Mr. Loomis she knows a little bit from his nightmares with Edward. She asked a question about if he was ever married or had a girlfriend and he yanked her hand down and she almost fell over and said, "no, I never got married. Why did you ask that?" After that incident she has been uneasy and is now worried when he gets better that he will be more controlling.

George in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck was a very in-depth character. The novel had many several types of characterization including indirect, direct, and even uses literary devices to describe what type of archetype he is. An archetype is a label that wholly describes a character. George falls under the “Hero” archetype. George is a protagonist that is truly a morally good person and gets challenges when morals meet trials that challenge their morals.

In David Barber’s book, he focuses on four main character types. They were known as active – positive, active – negative, passive – positive and passive – negative. These types were based off of the personalities of the first

In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men he uses many literary elements in his book. John also uses a lot of different archetypes in his writing, John also uses imagery and symbolism. In page one John uses imagery to describe the setting also on page two he describes Lennie. The rabbit is a really good example of symbolism because the rabbits symbolise comfort and happiness for Lennie One of the literary elements in Of Mice and Men is an archetype. An archetype a typical character, a situation that represents a universal pattern of the human nature.

“To some extent insanity is a form of conformity; people are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering. But it’s really not so simple…I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also” (qtd. in “John Forbes Nash”). To many “normal” people, the terms “insanity” or “madness” portray a negative connotation-- the unfortunate ones “suffer” from mental illness. However, brilliant mathematician and Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash, who has paranoid schizophrenia, cherishes his unique condition as a means of retreat from the brutalities of reality (“John Forbes Nash”). Since ancient times, people have observed the link between madness and creative genius. Indeed, research has proven that the two conditions of

There are actually two different meanings of character. The first meaning of character could be a person in a novel, play, or movie while the second meaning of character is, according to the Webster’s dictionary, the moral nature or strength of a person. It is the compound of mental and moral traits that marks a person. In this case, I am referring to the second definition, which is the compound of mental and moral traits that mark a person. The word ‘character’ comes from the Greek word kharakter, which means engraved mark, imprint on the soul and instrument for marking. The dictionary describes this character as “the stable and distinctive qualities built into an individual’s life which determines his or her response regardless of circumstances”. This means that character is the steady qualities built into a person that determines how he or she will act despite the situation. Someone who has the character trait of being trustworthy, will be more likely to be a better accountant than a person who you cannot trust, who lies all the time and who is unreliable. Character, according to Abraham Lincoln, is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of the character and the tree is the character itself. Things like how you dress, your favorite music or whether you are shy does not have anything to do with character, but rather, it is how your actions and thought relate