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Analyzing a Character. Your Second Quarter Essay. ANALYZING A CHARACTER. Expository writing informs, explains, describes, and analyzes. Literature helps us learn something about human NATURE—including ourselves.
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Analyzing a Character Your Second Quarter Essay
ANALYZING A CHARACTER • Expository writing informs, explains, describes, and analyzes. • Literature helps us learn something about human NATURE—including ourselves. • Laurence Perrine, who taught literature for many years, said that FICTION helps us to “know PEOPLE, to understand them, and to learn compassion for them, as we might not otherwise do.” • In class, you’ll write an essay ANALYZING a character in a story we have read.