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Focus on CHARACTER

Elements of Fiction. Focus on CHARACTER. Enhancing Y our Understanding. 1. 3. 2. Identify the Characters. Discover Their Purpose. Focus on Development. There is no story without a character. 1. Identify The Character. Who and What . Major Categories of Characters.

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Focus on CHARACTER

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  1. Elements of Fiction Focus onCHARACTER

  2. EnhancingYour Understanding 1 3 2 Identify the Characters Discover Their Purpose Focus on Development There is no story without a character.

  3. 1 Identify The Character Who and What

  4. Major Categories of Characters TheProtagonist It’s WHO the story is all about. Usually good, but NOT always. TheAntagonist It’s WHO is AGAINST the Protagonist. Usually bad, but NOT always.

  5. The ROLESThey Play

  6. Roundvs. Flat

  7. 2 Focus On Development Discovering the Character

  8. SHOWING IT It’s not just about the telling a story, it’s about

  9. Direct Characterization …And I don’t play the dozens or believe in standing around with somebody in my face doing a lot of talking. I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if I’m a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice, which is how I got the name Squeaky. From “Raymond’s Run” by T. Bambara

  10. Indirect Characterization The old man bowed to all of us in the room. Then he removed his hat and gloves, slowly and carefully. Chaplin once did that in a picture, in a bank--he was the janitor. From “Gentleman of Rio en Medio” by J. Sedillo

  11. Saying it without saying it “From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.”Nadine Gordimer

  12. How the character speaks

  13. What the character thinks

  14. How the characteracts

  15. How the characterreacts

  16. How othersreact to the character

  17. What others say about the character

  18. 3 Discover Their Purpose Why bother with characters at all?

  19. MOTIVATION “Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.” Les Brown

  20. RELATIONSHIPS • “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” • Tennessee Williams

  21. CONFLICT “I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” Oprah Winfrey

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  23. FOCUS ON FICTION What’s Your Message?

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