Alex Bennett
English-HL2
Moore 3A
Reflective Statement Stock and flat characters are essential in writing novels. They either help the main character or they harm them in some way. In terms of Waiting for Godot, most of the characters all tie in with each other in good and bad ways. One character that had a big influence on the book was Didi. However, since he is a main character, he does not influence the flat characters, they affect him. For example, Didi and his constant wanting to commit suicide. Didi brought out the “bad” side of Gogo by having him retaliate in a harsh physical way. Due to this, Didi fights Gogo because of the anger that overtook him. This changed the reader’s outlook on Didi as a whole. We did know about how he loved adventure, and even left to join a bandit gang. This was a protagonist to why Didi did what she did. Another character who is greatly affected by flat
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Putting the book in chronological order helps understand the story itself and the originations of particular characters. In terms of Waiting for Godot, most of the characters all tie in with each other in good and bad ways. Whenever someone tells a story, nothing is in order. People usually only remember the main events that happened, but throughout their telling they remember other parts and insert them by going back in time. Also, since Yan had to reach a quota and have a specific amount of words fulfill, as he is telling the story, he adds on parts after they occurred. This technique also helps begin and end the mini stories that are being told in the book. As a story begins, about midway a new one is started. About mid way of the second story, he goes back and finishes of the first one giving the reader more and more context that helps us understand what is being told. This is a very specific aspect that Mo Yan uses in Red Sorghum and it is very
Having an older sibling is rough already, but having a brother that you have to worry about him breaking in and stealing valuables of your own, that's tough and the main character Gordie Jessup has to deal with the betrayal of his older brother, Chase Jessup everyday throughout Katherine Holubitskys’s novel “Tweaked”. Gordie’s efforts trying to fix his family are overwhelmed by Chase’s drug addiction and money debts he has with his dealers. There are many themes throughout the book.
While some characters are considered minor, their impact is anything but unimportant. It tends to be the people who attain the least recognition that have the biggest effect overall. This is why authors, like Orwell, are able to use characters like O’Brien and Charrington to move the character development along.. In the novel, 1984 by George Orwell, Julia, who appears to have selfish beliefs, shifts her views of freedom after Charting gives her a safe space, and O’Brien shifts her view on love after he tortures her.
In the play The Crucible many of the characters learn things about themselves as well as others. Discuss the insight gained by the characters of Elizabeth Proctor, Reverend Hale, and John Proctor.
A stock character is a fictional character in literature, film, theatre or television that is based on a stereotype that is familiar to many people. Stock characters rely heavily on cultural types, manner of speech, and other characteristics. They are an important component of any play or story because it provides relationships and interactions that people will recognize immediately. People can summarize the characters’ role in the story in a sentence or less and people will know exactly what you are talking about. They vary from widely known cultural types and mannerisms, and every culture has its own set of stock characters.
In the story "Cathedral", by Raymond Carver, the narrator is conflicted with issues of inner-demons that are manifested in a blind man whom he perceives as a danger to his marriage. The narrator in this story is a good example of an anti-hero showing negative characteristics while never actually being a bad guy. This gives the idea that he is very humanistic character. That being said, he is a flawed character who is just trying to please his wife while not giving up what he wants. In the end he realizes that he can have both revealing a very enlighten experience. Over the entire story the narrator is confronted with different moments that gradually alters his perspective and changes him for the better.
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor, the protagonist, is a farmer in his middle thirties. The author gives little to no detailed physical description of him, but from Proctor’s speech, we can still picture him as a strong and powerful man who is able to keep every situation under the control, the kind of personality which earns him deep respect and even fear from the people in town. On the other hand, Abigail Williams, the antagonist, plays an inferior role as an orphan who has no social status in a place like Salem. Over the course of the play, John Proctor is absolutely awakened and transformed by Abigail Williams. In the end, he overcomes the crucible by releasing himself from his guilt of
This essay focuses on the history and the culture of character design, comparing the character design from the early 1930s to the present. By analysis those differences to explode what is the main element of effecting the character design, and to prove the homogenization of character over the world. Through the interview with professional character designers from all around the world, this essay enables the reader to think deeper and further, about the future trend of character design. To discover the culture of character, the history of character design will be studied, character like Snow White from old Disney animation will be used in this essay. By comparing the new character and the old character to find out the chancing of character design. And to comprehend the future
The main theme of the book is the ‘character’ of people in that time. How people bonded and rejected one another in a time of such hardship and demoralization. I think every character played a part in the
The result of these characteristics give each story suspense and mystery, leaving the readers wondering what each character will do next and what further action will take place. Characters hold a primary role in determining the outcome of a story, which is the reasoning behind the many similarities and differences among literary characters. Also, a clear example is the similar plots with two completely different outcomes. Once the audience understands a character, they are capable of building on their existing knowledge to foreshadow events or understand the text more logically, which is evident when reading these
Both Dade and Julian where fixated on proving themselves right and defending their beliefs about
Not only do the roles of the characters compel a reader, they also illustrate the
Also, it develops children’s reading skill and give confidence of reading. For example, chronological order is the basic order in narrative order that helps the story to flow smoothly and easily by following the story time step by step. Even though most of the book order is chronological order they have their own way to tell the story which is called variation in narrative form, it is form that they helps easy to understand the story and character’s feeling, though and action. Then variations in representations of time, which is known as a flashback, it is form that tells past of the story and through these readers can know the background of the story or helps, remind that what the character was like before, also we could find what will happen in future events (Lukens et al, 2012, p. 141 – 144). Therefore, without these three types of narrative order, children might have difficulties to read and understand the story or in worse case they might lose the interest of reading a
She's going to have to think and pray about her decision overnight. She certainly understands the consequences either way," Mat Staver, founder of the law firm representing Davis, said on Monday, hours before a court-ordered delay in the case expired. "She'll report to work tomorrow, and face whatever she has to
Round characters are seen as characters in a story that have multiple different characteristic traits that grow, change, and have complex emotions. In comparison to a flat character, flat characters are the opposite of round having only one significant trait and or emotions. Stereotyped characters are characters that are the same and found in many types of stories are also considered flat as there is only one trait to them, while round character are not easy recognizable from different stories and have more complexity.