Dynamic Characters In The Necklace By Guy De Maupassant

A dynamic character is a character that changes and develops throughout a story. Usually these changes occur due to events, experiences, or just simply maturing. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the most prominent example of a dynamic character is the book thief herself, Liesel Meminger. At the beginning of the novel when she is only nine years old, she is a very different person than she is at the end of the novel. By then she is nearing fifteen years of age and has underwent a numerous amount of situations, both traumatic and beautiful.

A dynamic character is a character who undergoes a metamorphosis throughout a book. In the book That was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton, there are two boys; one of them is dynamic while the other one is static. Bryon goes through a lot in this book which causes him to mature. Firstly, before Bryon started maturing, he use to hustle pool players, steal things, beat up hippies, date girls he didn’t care about, drink, and even go into a bar. He use to do this with his best friend Mark. They are like brothers and they still are except Bryon is changing and Mark is not. One of the ways this is shown is when it states, “He even acted like he was jealous of Cathy. In all the years I’d known him, in all the years I’d gone with different girls, he had never acted like this.

Dynamic characters are characters that are found in almost every book, and are characters that change throughout the story. In Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, Luke Garner is a third child, in a country where third children are illegal. In the beginning, Luke is not able to go outside anymore due to the woods being clear, and new houses being built. He is not able to go outside, in fear of someone seeing him. In the middle, Luke meets Jen, another illegal third child. Jen is a baron and has many more privileges than Luke does, but she still does not want to hide. This is why she organized a rally to protest the rights of third children. In the end, Luke Garner becomes Lee Grant, and has to leave his family to go to a boarding school. Luke realizes that he wants to do something about the Population Law, because it’s not right for third children to live their life in hiding. Luke has drastically changed in many different ways throughout the entirety of the story, in both good and bad ways. Luke has gone from obedient to disobedient, unaware to knowledgeable, and apprehensive to confident.

A dynamic character is defined as a character that undergoes a change throughout the course of a story. In the novel That Was Then, This Is Now, by S.E. Hinton, Bryon, the main protagonist of the story, starts realizing that he is changing and growing up, but he also realizes that his friend since he was a kid, Mark, was not. Bryon goes through the story trying to keep their friendship alive while also staying with his new girlfriend Cathy, and he is getting more serious with her by the day. Throughout the book, the reader can undoubtedly see that Byron is a dynamic character who doesn’t go through just one change, but multiple changes. To begin, on pages 66 through 69, Bryon thought back to when he and Mark were kids and they would fool around and were involved

A dynamic character is defined as one who makes a change in his character from the beginning of the story to the end. In "Of Mice and Men" George seems to make this type of change if we compare the way that he acts in Chapter One to what he becomes by Chapter Six. In the very beginning of the novel, George seems to be bothered by the fact that he has to take care of Lennie. He feels obligated because of the things that he witnessed during their childhood. Despite the fact that he feels obligated, he does not treat Lennie as well as he should, always acting and treating Lennie as if he is a nuisance and is in the way of George achieving more than he has.

Roger in the quote is throwing rocks at Henry who is younger than him, he is doing this because he is now somewhere where there is no one to punish wrong doings; however, he seems to avoid Henry, later in the quote Golding specifically wrote “Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law”. (Golding 87) Roger is reminiscing what it felt like to live back where he used to which had parents, school, policemen and laws. Even though none of those are there

Characters are an important literary aspect an author uses to communicate their message to their audience. There are multiple strategies an author uses to make their story more compelling and thought provoking. One strategy an author uses is to incorporate a dynamic character into their written work. A dynamic character is a character that changes overtime throughout a story due to conflicts that they encounter. Dynamic characters in a short story serve a purpose. Just the use of a dynamic character can change the way an audience perceives a story. It is also common that a dynamic character will be a protagonist in the story. Two great literary works, “ The Chrysanthemums” written by John Steinbeck and “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman both contain a dynamic character. Elisa Allen, a typical farmer in “ The Chrysanthemums” and the narrator, who suffers from depression in “The Yellow Wallpaper” both experience obstacles that shift their mind set and idea of self worth in society. Elisa Allen and the narrator are both dynamic characters whose journeys bring to the realization their loss of identity.

Jones is generous as she provides him with a meal and a small amount of money for the shoes he wanted to buy. The old lady knows that  without an adult, there would be no one to guide him and point out his mistakes and failures that will come along his way. The old lady helped Roger to learn from his mistakes as he was grateful for the time he had shared with her. A quote from the text is, “ But I wish you would behave yourself, son, from here on in.”  As an orphan , she gave him the opportunity for redemption rather than punishing him. Finally, Roger does not know how to thank her or repay her  back, but one thing is for sure, she should feel proud for making someone feel so blessed when their world feels empty.

But later in the story her discontentment caused her to terrible problem and sealed her fate. The necklace of Madame Forestier has been lost. It is her discontent that caused her to borrow the necklace which she lost. But it is an irony of fate that Mathilde and her husband faced 10 years of hardship for nothing but a fake necklace which cost “at most only five hundred francs.” (6) For this necklace they repaid a debt of “thirty-six thousand francs.” (5) If Mathilde and her husband had admitted to Madame Forestier about the truth of losing the necklace then the consequences would have been different and they would have avoided the hardship. This relates with another morality of the story which is to tell the truth.

The reason Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones takes Roger home is that he reminds her of her own childhood, so she wants to teach him a lesson so he will have a better life than the one she had. The first sign of this is when she confesses that she too has faults, and has done things she now regrets. “I have done things, too, which I would not tell you son- neither tell God if he didn’t already know.”(pg. 39, l. 116-118)

At the beginning of “Thank you, Ma’am,” we see how just how compassionate Mrs. Jones really is. The moment she meets Roger, she tells the boy to wash his face. “Least I can do is wash your face. Are you hungry?” This might not seem like a very compassionate thing to do at first, however, she doesn’t even know the boy, yet she has enough compassion to make sure he is clean. Then, she takes the boy inside of her house! In addition, the boy, Roger asks, “You going to take me to jail?” But Mrs. Jones doesn’t. Maybe she sees that Roger is really a good boy inside, so she shows compassion to bring out his true kindness. This makes me think that he was probably trying to steal because he had to. And when Mrs. Jones asked him if he had anyone at home, he said, “No’m.” Mrs.

“I wanted to say thank but, deep inside me wanted to say something more than thank you.” this proves roger wanting to change who he is because miss jones has changed him to be a better person. The story An American Childhood states turning points however in the text it states “I realized my parents didn’t care about what I did means im on my own.” The cause of this turning point is her parents didn’t care about what she did and it caused her to feel

In "The Necklace," Mathilde is very selfish throughout the story. Mathilde shows her selfishness when she longs to be rich and live in a nice home, wear expensive clothing and wear flashy jewelry with her clothes. "These…show how materialistic Mathilde is and how selfish she is for caring only about gaining these things for herself," says one critic (Directessays). Mr. Loisel provides the basic necessities for her to live a good life, but she wants more than just the basic necessities.

Moving forward, the necklace borrowed from Madame Forestier appears to be an authentic diamond accessory, when instead, it is an imitation. After Mathilde misplaces the necklace, buys a new one, and works for what seems to be an endless amount of time in order

"God, but your silly! Go to your friend Mrs. Forrestier and ask her to lend you some jewelry. You know her well enough to do that." (The Necklace, Pg 7) When Matilde's husband suggests that she borrow some jewelry from one of her wealthy friends, he really had no idea what a terrible mistake he was making at the time.