Nadya Clark Character

For my imitation, I decided to carry over what I considered to be the most important aspect of the original story. This is aspect is the ability of the author to create a definitive good guy, or protagonist, as well as a clear bad guy, or antagonist. I put myself in the position of the hero, determined to protect others. I accomplish this by describing myself using a similar framework to how the author, Nadya Labi, initially characterizes Celia Blay (See first quote on pervious page). I describe myself in a basic sense and state things such as, “most people who met her described her as one of the friendliest people that they knew.” I build myself up in a way that is positive and likable from the beginning. I do the inverse of this for Kyle’s roommates. …show more content…
I use the structure that Labi created for her introduction of Melchert-Dinkel (see third quote of previous page). I kept my writing particularly close in regards to the sentence, “Melchert-Dinkel was indeed a nurse, a resident nurse whose career was distinguished only by his incompetence, at best, and possibly something much more sinister,” which I substituted for “The friendship was distinguished by its exclusivity at best, but possibly something far more shallow.” I made changes that allowed the sentence to better fit the context of my story. Specifically, I changed the word “sinister” to “shallow” since the roommates weren’t truly evil, but simply