Alejandro Arcos
Mrs.Litos
Oct 14 2015 A five page essay on the characterization and indirect characterizations.
First of all, we better go through what characterization is what a writer should do to improve upon an individual characters personality. Let’s say at the beginning, you have a character who’s established as kind of a jerk. Put him in the situation where he’s gonna go through a bunch of trials that change his attitude a bit. By the end, if he’s not a nihilist or the most optimistic person one that side of the planet by the end of the book then the writer …show more content…
For an example that isn’t made up on the spot by yours truly, you can look to books like every book on the Holocaust ever, where a character named Ellie goes into a camp completely faithful, and comes out as a not-Jewish person. Along the way, he makes a few difficult decisions. Such as whether or not he feels like eating some bread, or how if he should just leave his father, who is currently immobilized from concussions, starvation, frostbite, dysentery, and a few bruises, or bring him along in hope of bringing him out alive. He doesn’t make it by the …show more content…
Our main character, who we’ll call Sam, got stranded on an island with Blue Dolphins after her people were shipped away in boats for their own protection. Another islander, who we’ll also call Sam, was also stranded and happened to be her little brother. By the beginning he dies to a lot of wolfs though. As a sign of respect, Sam buries Sams body on the beach before getting back to surviving for about twenty years. Along her endeavors, she met one of the wolfs who we must assume was part of the pack who mauled Sam to death and manages to domesticate it. We’ll call the wolf Sam also. Now that Sam has a companion, she shows a lot of indirect characterization when speaking and working with Sam, like her personal thoughts and opinions on the situation she’s in right now. By the end of the book, long after Sam the wolf has died, Sam is greeted by a captain of a boat who came back by coincidence to pick her up. We’ll call him Samson. Samson takes Sam over to civilization, where she finds out that her entire tribe has died to diseases as soon as they stepped into the new environment. And then the book ends, and Sam dies in the epilogue to a disease that history promised. We’ll call it
Mrs.Litos
Oct 14 2015 A five page essay on the characterization and indirect characterizations.
First of all, we better go through what characterization is what a writer should do to improve upon an individual characters personality. Let’s say at the beginning, you have a character who’s established as kind of a jerk. Put him in the situation where he’s gonna go through a bunch of trials that change his attitude a bit. By the end, if he’s not a nihilist or the most optimistic person one that side of the planet by the end of the book then the writer …show more content…
For an example that isn’t made up on the spot by yours truly, you can look to books like every book on the Holocaust ever, where a character named Ellie goes into a camp completely faithful, and comes out as a not-Jewish person. Along the way, he makes a few difficult decisions. Such as whether or not he feels like eating some bread, or how if he should just leave his father, who is currently immobilized from concussions, starvation, frostbite, dysentery, and a few bruises, or bring him along in hope of bringing him out alive. He doesn’t make it by the …show more content…
Our main character, who we’ll call Sam, got stranded on an island with Blue Dolphins after her people were shipped away in boats for their own protection. Another islander, who we’ll also call Sam, was also stranded and happened to be her little brother. By the beginning he dies to a lot of wolfs though. As a sign of respect, Sam buries Sams body on the beach before getting back to surviving for about twenty years. Along her endeavors, she met one of the wolfs who we must assume was part of the pack who mauled Sam to death and manages to domesticate it. We’ll call the wolf Sam also. Now that Sam has a companion, she shows a lot of indirect characterization when speaking and working with Sam, like her personal thoughts and opinions on the situation she’s in right now. By the end of the book, long after Sam the wolf has died, Sam is greeted by a captain of a boat who came back by coincidence to pick her up. We’ll call him Samson. Samson takes Sam over to civilization, where she finds out that her entire tribe has died to diseases as soon as they stepped into the new environment. And then the book ends, and Sam dies in the epilogue to a disease that history promised. We’ll call it