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Characterization: the act of creating or describing a character

Characterization: the act of creating or describing a character. Direct description: a speaker, narrator, or another character comments on the character

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Characterization: the act of creating or describing a character

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  1. Characterization: the act of creating or describing a character • Direct description: a speaker, narrator, or another character comments on the character • Portrayal of character’s behaviors: the writer presents the actions and speech of the character, allowing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions • Representations of characters’ internal states: the writer reveals directly the character’s private thoughts and emotions

  2. Point of view • First-person: narrator is an active participant in the story, using I and we • Second-person: narrator addresses the reader directly, using you, your, and yours • Third-person: narrator does not take part in the action, but stands outside and tells the story using he, she, it, they and avoiding I and we

  3. In your notebooks, answer: • Describe the mayor's character. Which characterization technique does the author use to describe his character? • How does our narrator feel about the mayor, Secretary Zhao, and the street-sweeping show? How would the story be different if it was told from the mayor's point of view? From Secretary Zhao's point of view? • What makes this a political satire?

  4. Read the additional piece that you were assigned • "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter" p. 245 • "I Built My Cottage among the Habitations of Men" p. 372 • To "Free-Spirited Fisherman" p. 402 • from Tao TeChing p. 544 • from the Analects p. 550 • Summarize what this piece is saying. How does the language/subject matter in these older texts differ from the modern piece we read together?

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