'As He Walked Past The Box Labeled Free Puppies'

Jerson Reyes 9 10-13-15

Direct and Indirect Characterization

Direct and indirect characterization differ from each other in different ways. Direct characterization is when the author tells you how a person feels right away, on the other indirect characterization is when the author describes the feeling using things around them. For example, “As he walked past the box labeled ‘Free Puppies,’ he glanced around him, then gave the box a kick.” This shows the characters personality without the author or another character in the story saying it directly in the sentence. Indirect characterization makes readers inference the characters personality instead of just being given the facts about them. Indirect characterization takes more time to develop the characters characteristic compared to direct characterization that doesn’t take much time to develop. Indirect characterization makes readers think instead of making it easier for them through direct characterization. Readers have to use context clues to find out what the characters are like. They use their actions to describe them. You can also use the way they speak and their tone towards others to identify their characteristics. Indirect characterization is about not telling the reader the way the character is but giving them hints to figure out how they really are. Indirect characterization is better than …show more content…
We don’t tell the person how they act but more of how they are using adjectives. We don’t use actions to describe a person when first meeting someone or introducing someone but we use words and adjectives. We judge people on how they act and are by the way they speak. Sometimes we look at people’s actions more than actually listening to what someone else has to say about them in words. We use direct and indirect characterization in our daily lives. These are the ways we judge and figure people