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Characterization. How do characters drive the conflict in a story?. Direct Characterization. When a writer tells the audience directly and explicitly what kind of personality the character has. Ex: The patient boy and quiet girl were both well-mannered and did not disobey their mother.
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Direct Characterization • When a writer tells the audience directly and explicitly what kind of personality the character has. • Ex: The patient boy and quiet girl were both well-mannered and did not disobey their mother.
Indirect Characterization • When the writer shows the audience implicitly what personality the character has. • Ex: The boy waited without moving a finger or saying a word as his mother made cookies for him. Hands clasped together, he stared with wide-eyes as she mixed the batter.
Speech • Ex: “But we can have/Lots of fun that is funny” (7) • What kind of character does this reveal?
Thoughts • Narrator: So all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we did not like it. Not one little bit. • What do these thoughts reveal about the narrator?
Effect • Throughout the first three quarters of the story, three different illustrations portray the fish scowling at the cat immediately after each of the cat’s activities. When the cat returns to clean up his mess at the end of the story the fish is shown with a smile on his face (57).
What does the scowl and the smile reveal about the fish’s character?
Actions • On p. 18 the cat engages in “Up-Up-Up with a fish” an activity that involves the cat standing on a ball while balancing seven objects. Later the cat releases two “things” that fly kites inside the house.
Looks • Throughout the first three-quarters of the story, the cat is show with a smile on his face. Towards the end of the story, however, when the cat is told to leave, he is shown leaving the house with slumped shoulders and a frown on his face.
