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By:Taylor, Becca, Will. CHARACTER. A character is the person,people,animals or imaginary creatures in the story that take part in the action of a story. Example: Tom and Jerry are character from the old cartoon, TOM AND JERRY. . Character Developement!.
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CHARACTER A character is the person,people,animals or imaginary creatures in the story that take part in the action of a story. Example: Tom and Jerry are character from the old cartoon, TOM AND JERRY.
Character Developement! Character Development is when a character changes in the story to make a story have more twists and turns. Example: in the book Touching Sprit Bear, Cole Mathews goes from a troubled teenage boy to a kind caring human Being.
Static character • In fiction,drama, or literary nonfiction the characters undergo little or no change. Example: In the novel, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Zachariah stays the same through out the whole novel.
Dynamic Character • Dynamic character-a character that changes significantly during the story. Example: In the book Touching SpiritBear, Cole Mathews goes from hard criminal teenage outcast to a nature loving softie.
Setting! The setting of a story, poem or play is the time and place of the action. Example: In the book, The Devils Arithmetic, the setting is Poland in the late stages of WWll.
Conflict! The conflict is a struggle between two forces. There are two types of conflicts, internal and external. Internal is a conflict a character is dealing with inside them and external is when a character has other characters involved in the conflict. Example: In the book, Touching Sprit Bear, Cole Mathews has an internal conflict with his emotions, but then the conflict becomes external when he starts to take out his anger on other people.
Definition:the meaning, lesson, or moral of a story Example: a commonly used theme is “don’t judge a book by it’s cover” Theme
Narrator • Definition: the person that tells the story or helps the story “move” • Example: Brian is the narrator in “Hatchet”
Point of View • Example: the book,Touching Spirit Bear is in third person but it has Cole Matthews thoughts • Definitions: a:1st person a character is the narrator b:2nd person like a letter- when one person addresses another directly c:3rd person the narrator is not a character
Plot! The plot is the series of events that happens in the story. Plots have complicated structures. They have, an exposition, the rising action, a climax, and a falling action. Example: In some books they have a grand opening of a store. They have to work hard to make it and then they get to cut the opening ribbon.