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Literature Circles Week Four | Valentine Edition

The. Of Your Novel. Literature Circles Week Four | Valentine Edition . In honor of Valentine’s Day, this week you will focus on finding clues about the heart of your character and the heart of your novel. The HEART Of Characters. Story/Plot Comes from Characters—Characters Create the Problem

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Literature Circles Week Four | Valentine Edition

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  1. The Of Your Novel Literature Circles Week Four | Valentine Edition

  2. In honor of Valentine’s Day, this week you will focus on finding clues about the heart of your character and the heart of your novel.

  3. The HEART Of Characters Story/Plot Comes from Characters—Characters Create the Problem Take a handful of flawed humans with agendas, put them together, shake, slowly turn up the heat and watch the drama ignite. Great fiction is fueled by bad decisions and human weakness—the desire for power, control, recognition, jealousy, rage, cowardice, lust, vengeance, etc. This is why perfect characters are super boring. We can’t relate.

  4. The HEART Of Characters Character flaws help us connect. In good stories, we should be able to connect with both the protagonist and the antagonist. If our antagonist is a pure evil mustache-twirler, that generally leads to a literary snooze fest. In fact, the more we connect with the antagonist, the better the story.

  5. The HEART Of Characters • Part 1: As you annotate this week, seek the following and use text evidence to prove your point. • What is the at the heart of your protagonist? • What scares him/her? • What does he/she believe about life/the world? • What are the protagonist’s flaws? • What is at the heart of the antagonist? • How does the author slyly encourage you to relate to “the bad guy”? • What scares him/her? • What does he/she believe about life/the world? • What are the antagonist’s flaws?

  6. The HEART Of Your Novel • Part 2: As you annotate this week, seek the following and use text evidence to prove your point. • What is the at the heart of your novel? What is this novel really about? How does this novel matter in the bigger picture of life? Why did the author choose to tell THIS story? What, based on your inferences, do you think was in the author’s heart as he/she wrote this novel?

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