Monday October 4 th We will write the missing journal 7 in class Journals collected Notes and discussion Characterization Read Chapter 15 Characterization Direct and Indirect How does a writer describe and develop a character ID: 237388
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Agenda - Honors
Monday, October 4
th
We will write the “missing journal #7” in class.
Journals collected
Notes and discussion: Characterization
Read Chapter 15Slide2
Characterization:
Direct and Indirect
How does a writer describe and develop a character?Slide3
Objectives
In this lesson we will answer:
How are characters developed by a writer?
What is the difference between direct and indirect characterization?
How does a character’s speech reveal their traits? (dialogue, monologue, soliloquy)
What is a first-person narrator?
How can we incorporate this knowledge into
our writing?Slide4
Creating characters—telling what human beings are like—is the whole point of writing stories.
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Creating CharactersSlide5
Writers build characters by revealing
speech
appearance
private thoughts
others’ reactions
actions
Character DevelopmentSlide6
Which methods of character development are being used?
What do you think of the man based on this excerpt?
Character Development
Quick Check
“Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!”
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints . . . ; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.
from
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
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Speech
Actions
Description
Character Development
Quick Check
Which methods of character development are being used?
“Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!”
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints . . . ; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.
from
Great Expectations
by Charles DickensSlide8
He’s dangerous and desperate. He seems to be an escaped prisoner on the run.
What do you think of the man based on this excerpt?
Character Development
Quick Check
“Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!”
A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints . . . ; who limped, and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.
from
Great Expectations
by Charles DickensSlide9
First-person narrators
reveal their personal traits as they
tell us what they think and feel
Be aware that some first-person narrators mislead or lie to the audience.
tell their own stories (using pronouns like
I, me,
and
we
)
Soliloquy
Dramatic Monologue
SpeechSlide10
what characters say and don’t say
Dialogue
can reveal a lot about characters and their relationships with each other. Pay attention to
how characters respond to each other
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SpeechSlide11
Pay attention to language the writer uses to describe the characters’ looks, clothes, and demeanor.
Does the description give you a positive or negative impression of the character?
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Appearance
Which words contribute to this impression?
The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue. . . .
from
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
Slide12
Writers can take us into the characters’ minds to reveal their thoughts and feelings.
As you read, note whether the characters’ thoughts and feelings match their speech and actions.
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Private ThoughtsSlide13
Watch how other characters in the story react to the character. Note
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how the others feel about the character
what the others say about the character
How Other Characters FeelSlide14
What characters do and how they treat each other often reveal the most about them.
Observe characters’ actions to determine
what their personality is like
what motivates them
how they deal with conflict
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ActionsSlide15
Direct Characterization
—Writers
tell
us directly what characters are like or what their motives are.
Oh, but he was a tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
from
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Indirect Characterization
—Writers
show
us characters (through speech, appearance, private thoughts, other characters’ reactions, and actions) but allow us to decide what characters are like.
Direct and Indirect CharacterizationSlide16
Quick Check
My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap. She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
from
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Is this an example of direct or indirect characterization?
What kind of person do you think this character is?
Direct and Indirect Characterization
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Indirect. The writer is describing the character’s appearance.
Direct and Indirect Characterization
Quick Check
Is this an example of direct or indirect characterization?
My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap. She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
from
Great Expectations
by Charles DickensSlide18
I think she’s strict and unfriendly.
What kind of person do you think this character is?
Direct and Indirect Characterization
Quick Check
My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself with a nutmeg-grater instead of soap. She was tall and bony, and almost always wore a coarse apron, fastened over her figure behind with two loops, and having a square impregnable bib in front, that was stuck full of pins and needles.
from
Great Expectations
by Charles DickensSlide19
Assignments
Read “Thank You M’am” for tomorrow
Short Story prewriting due Wed. Be prepared to start drafting on Wed.
If you have not completed a PSSA diagnostic pretest, please do so ASAPSlide20
Make sure you understand the meanings of the following words. Make a chart like the one below and fill in your understanding of each of the words.
Practice – 20 points
Monologue
Narrator
Soliloquy
First-person POV (point of view)
Direct characterization
Indirect characterization
Connotation
Dialogue
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The EndSlide22
Dramatic monologue
—a type of poem in which a speaker addresses one or more silent listeners.
often dicusses a specific problem or situation
may tell us about his or her life and values
may reveal his or her relationship with the listener(s)
The
narrator
of a dramatic monologue
SpeechSlide23
Soliloquy
—a long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
discuss a specific problem or situation
reveal his or her deepest private thoughts to the audience
The character may
Speech