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Chapter 2. Character Development. 30107 Jaein Park. Characters. individuals who participate in the action of a literary work. Like real people, characters display crtain qualities, or character traits. Character Development. Direct. Indirect. Alice is a wise girl.
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Chapter 2. Character Development 30107 Jaein Park
Characters • individuals who participate in the action of a literary work. • Like real people, characters display crtain qualities, or character traits
Character Development Direct Indirect • Alice is a wise girl. • My English teacher is very nice. • Alice got A in math quiz. • He always smiles at us.
Character Behavior • Why they act a certain way and how they change. MOTIVATION The reasons between character’s actions
How to figure it out? • Directly stated • The narrator’s direct comments about a character’s motivation • The character’s actions, thoughts, and values • Your own insight into human behavior
Those Winter Sundays • Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold then with cracked hands that ahced from labor in the weekday weather made bancked fire blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house
Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices
Characters Speaker The Father • Curt • Loves his father • Feels sorry to his father • Loves his family • Works hard for the family