The Importance Of Minor Characters

The death of the character Lexa from a popular show, The 100 angered many fans of the show. She was killed off by a stray bullet, a very common death for LGBT+ characters like Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Denise from The Walking Dead. Fans of the show were convinced that their beloved character’s story would entail a different ending by the writers themselves via social media and interviews. After the episode that included her death aired, fans fought back with trends that spread awareness and called the network, the CW, out on the actions taken. Over 100,000 dollars were raised by fans for the Trevor Project, and organization that supports LGBT+ youth and actors on the show like Devon Bostick, Eliza Taylor, and Alycia Debnam-Carey (who played Lexa) showed their support and some even donated. In addition to the money raised they created billboards that sported phrases such as “LGBT viewers deserve better” and “Stop ‘burying your gays’”. They are making themselves heard and showing that they won’t stand for queer-baiting and

The fight for justice is not always unequivocal or favorable, sometimes justice is given by means that do not seem fair at all. William Styron says in a novel that life “is a search for justice.” It is blatant that throughout Khaled Hosseini's novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, female characters are continuously battered with injustices. Hosseini hones into the oppression of women and the fight for women empowerment through the life of one of his main characters, Mariam. Her journey is shown throughout the novel where she struggles to search for and understand justice.

Lord of the Flies is a novel written in 1954 by William Golding. A plane carrying a group of British citizens trying to escape the nuclear war gets shot down and lands on a deserted tropical island. The only survivors are children ranging from the age of six to twelve-year-olds. The younger children are nick named “littluns” and the older children are nick named “biguns”. At first, they celebrate their freedom from the war but then they begin to realize there aren't any adults to supervise them, they don't have food, they don't have shelter, and they are stranded on a deserted tropical island. One of the characters Piggy is classified as smart but is fat chubby and has asthma so he isn't capable of much things. “ “My auntie told me not to

“ His Expression remained the same- cynical, defiant, painful” (Gaines 84). Miss Emma did not think that Jefferson knew he was going to be put in the chair, which kind of furthers this whole idea that everyone has that’s he’s incompetent. Even his own aunt without realizing has degraded him. I think that maybe Jefferson can’t read or write but he’s a human who understands laws. At the beginning of the book I was feeding into the notion that he was mentally challenged, but I think now that he just grew up in the uneducated black stigma put on him by white people not letting black school have the same education. And so he knows he is going to die, he doesn’t fight he doesn’t resist he faces the unjust punishment with grace and is going o let

All these characters had different personalities and each character was lovable in their own way.

In the novel Fifth Business, characters mark new chapters of their lives by changing their names. Names are used to identify people in society and they are a symbol of self. The characters, Dunstan, Boy and Paul all change their names, Dunstable to Dunstan, Percy to Boy, and Paul to Magnus. Despite the characters’ attempts to change their names and personalities, Davies reveals that people will always maintain their true identities.

* Arrow thinks about why she kills the men on the hills, at the beginning it was because it was her duty to kill them but now she kills them because: “She knows she no longer kills them because they are killing her fellow citizens. That’s just a part of it. She kills them because she hates them.” (Pg. 190)

The novel When the Legends Die is about an American Indian who is forced to adapt to modern life after living in isolation in the wilderness. He and his mother Bessie flee to the mountains in fear of receiving punishment for Bessie’s husband’s crime of killing frank No Deer. He starts the book as a boy and dependent on his mother, but he is forced to grow up fast after he loses both his parents. Tom lives an isolated life at his lodge living in the old way that he was taught growing up. Tom’s situation is found out by Blue Elk and he insists he adapt to the new way and go to school. It is from this point on Thomas sees his life and himself change in many ways. He also stays constant in some of his innate traits and characteristics. The changes

The minor characters in a story can play such a major role. In the novel, “The Strange Case of Dr .Jekyll and Mr.Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson, the readers are introduced to several minor characters, such as Lanyon, Enfield, Carew, and Poole, who help advance the plot. Hastie Lanyon was an old friend of Jekyll who wrote a letter to Utterson about what he witnessed, Richard Enfield told the story of the door , Sir Danvers Carew was murdered by Hyde, and Poole was Jekyll’s butler who got Utterson for help. These minor characters play a major role in the plot.

Both Dade and Julian where fixated on proving themselves right and defending their beliefs about

From The Odyssey by Homer to Mrs. Flowers by Maya Angelou, classic literature has been around for thousands of years, people have read these stories and books and acted out these plays for a long time, but why? Classic literature is still around due to its memorable characters, ability to leave you with a cliffhanger (leaving room for interpretation), good style and relatability. These qualities seem to be in just about every classic book or short story, that is why the book A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz just might become a classic.

Why does Character Matter? Imagine a boy named Zach, he never cared about his type of character, he didn’t believe it truly mattered. However that was a huge mistake and it would lead to much bigger problems later on in life. Character is a particularly important type of building block in life as it creates your reputation, guides you down certain paths (good or bad depending on the type of character), and it molds your overall personality. Character is a chief variable of what creates your reputation.

Character Analysis of Hidden Figures Hidden Figures portrays three trailblazing African-American women, instrumental in space exploration during its earliest days, beginning in the 1950s. The movie, based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name, is by Hampton native Margo Lee Shetterly. The women in the movie lived in segregated Hampton, Virginia. As the story opens, the main role is Katherine who is a bright child happily walking and skipping while counting steps to a road, and the rocks and trees along her path. She loves counting and performs complex mathematical problems and solutions.

The success of literary works depends greatly on the quality of its characters, which is why it is essential to have characters, both major and minor, with distinct and contrasting personalities. Not only are minor characters used as foils for the major characters by emphasizing their important character traits, but in many cases they furthermore play a crucial role in the advancement of the plot. In the three novels that were examined this year, The Great Gatsby, The Kite Runner, and The Handmaids Tale, the minor character had a pivotal role in the development of the plot. In The Great Gatsby, Nick Carraway is not only the narrator but he is the image of order in a society of disorder. In The Kite Runner, Rahim Khan is the moral center

Having a couple of episodes drop in our laps in the first week was a wise plan, I feel. Not only did we get to see how the characters coped without a cameo from Twelve himself and stand its own two feet, the show was able to dig deeper into the roles, seeing what made them tick. As someone new to Ness’ work, I have to admit to admiring the way he is weaving the various arcs together across the episodes so far. Ram’s distress over Rachel’s death tied in well with the skinning alive he saw in the second episode, and as we see in the promo, this third one sees Tanya coming face to face with her dead father, whom she brought up in response in the aforementioned plot with Ram last week. LINK TO PROMO