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Characters and Their
Descriptions
Mrs. Weddle
7th Grade Reading
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A Quick Overview
A character is the person, animal,
creature, etc. in story, movie, novel,
play, etc. What is an example?Characters can be:
Protagonist or antagonist
Major or secondary
Dynamic or static
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Main vs. Secondary
The main characters are anycharacters that are directly
involved in the conflict. Theyare the ones that have forcesworking against them and that
have a problem to solve.
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Main Vs. Secondary
The secondary characters areany that are placed in the
story to spice it up but arenot needed to tell the story.
What is a good example of asecondary character?
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Protagonist Vs. Antagonist
The Protagonist is the leadingcharacter, also known as the
hero/heroine in the story. Thischaracter is acted against bythe antagonist
In your own words, what is theprotagonist?
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Protagonist Vs. Antagonist
The Antagonist is the characterthat is standing in the way of
the protagonist. They aresometimes seen as the badguy, but they are not
necessarily bad.What is an example of an
antagonist that is not bad?
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Dynamic Vs. Static
A Dynamic character is onethat changes in the story. The
change usually comes duringthe climax.
Who has changed so far in the
stories we have read?
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Dynamic Vs. Static
Static characters are ones thatdo not change throughout the
story.
Good way to remember static
characters: when a tv stationhas static, it never changes orgoes away.
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Methods of CharacterizationThere are several ways we can learn
about a character in a story:What they think
What they doWhat the say
How the narrator describes them
How they feel
What they look like
What other characters say about them
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Motivation of Characters
Characters react certainways in the story based on
what is going on in the storyand who they are ascharacters. Both major andminor characters have
motivations and its up to thereader to decide on thosemotivations.
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ExamplesThought:I stared at the umbrella. I wanted to open it,
twirl it around by its silver handle; I wanted todangle it from my wrist on the way to schoollike the way the other girls did. I wonderedwhat Miss Crosman would say if I offered tobring it to Eugenie at school tomorrow. From:The White Umbrella by Gish Jen
What does this passage reveal about thecharacter?
What was her motivation for wanting to wear iton her wrist like the other girls?
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ExamplesActions:Mr. Bueller shuffled through the papers
on his desk. He smiled and hummed as
he sat down to work. He remembered hiscollege years when he dated a girlfriendin borrowed cars. She thought he wasrich because each time he picked her up
he had a different car. It was fun until hespent all his money on her and had towrite home to his parents because hewas broke.
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Examples
Words:
The woman said, Um-hum! You
thought I was going to say but, didntyou? You thought I was going to say,but I didnt snatch peoples
pocketbooks. Well, I wasnt going tosay that. Pause. Silence. I have
done things too, which I would not tellyou son-neither tell God, if he didntalready know.
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Examples
Narrator Descriptions:
He was eighteen and one newspaper
article about him said that he couldbe in the major leagues by the time hewas nineteen. Thats how good hewas. Naturally, the baseball coachloved him. That was the thing about
Mack, the people who liked himusually liked him because he was astar.
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Examples
Mack had an attitude problem.He thought he could just show upand everybody was supposed to
fall down and go crazy. He waspretty smart, too, but he made thisbig show of not caring aboutgrades.From Kitty and Mack: A Love Story by
Walter Dean Myers
What motivated Mack to not care
about his grades?
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Examples
Feelings
Victor was too weak from failure
to join the class. He stared at theboard and wished he had taken
Spanish, not French. Better yet,
he wished he could start his life
over. He had never been soembarrassed.
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Examples
Looks
He looked as if he was fourteen
or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, intennis shoes and blue jeans.
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Examples
What Other Characters SayI glanced back at Mary Lou Welever
depositing her lunch pail on a shelf in
the back of the room and said, Notany more you aint.
Miss Daisy Crocket, yellow andbuckeyed, glared down at me from
the middle of the room with a look thatsaid, Sooooooooo, its you, CassieLogan.
From Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry byMildred Taylor