The best books all have one thing in common: good writing. Good writing is highly subjective, however there are a couple of elements that correlate between everybodies opinion on a good book. These are things such as vivid description, a fantastic storyline, and style of writing, but one element stands above all: character development. If you don’t know who the character of a book is, what the character looks like, talks like, even the character’s background, then how are you going to understand the book? An example of fantastic character development is in Jeffrey Archers’s book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less. This book follows four men, a doctor, an art dealer, a student at Oxford, and an heir to an Earldom, who have had their money swindled from them by an investment banker named Harvey Metcalfe.
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The beginning of the book focuses on Harvey’s plan to steal their money, which involves a fake oil drilling company in the U.K. To get people to invest in it, he hires a man named David Kesler to go around and tell wealthy individuals about this new oil drilling business. “David Kesler was a lean, clean-shaven young American, with a crew-cut which would have been better suited to a lieutenant in the Marines, a fresh complexion and an unquenchable earnestness. David wanted to succeed in business with all the fervour of the new Harvard Business School graduate. He had spent six years in all at Harvard, the first four studying mathematics for his Bachelor degree, and the last two across the Charles River at the Business School. Recently graduated and armed with a BA and an MBA, he was looking for a job that would reward him for the exceptional capacity for hard work he knew he possessed.” (29 - 30). This quote really proves how exceptional Jeffrey Archer is at character
The beginning of the book focuses on Harvey’s plan to steal their money, which involves a fake oil drilling company in the U.K. To get people to invest in it, he hires a man named David Kesler to go around and tell wealthy individuals about this new oil drilling business. “David Kesler was a lean, clean-shaven young American, with a crew-cut which would have been better suited to a lieutenant in the Marines, a fresh complexion and an unquenchable earnestness. David wanted to succeed in business with all the fervour of the new Harvard Business School graduate. He had spent six years in all at Harvard, the first four studying mathematics for his Bachelor degree, and the last two across the Charles River at the Business School. Recently graduated and armed with a BA and an MBA, he was looking for a job that would reward him for the exceptional capacity for hard work he knew he possessed.” (29 - 30). This quote really proves how exceptional Jeffrey Archer is at character