The short story “Red Cranes” by Jacey Choy and “The Firefly Hunt” by Jun`ichiro Tanizaki are two texts with very similar characters. Now although the characters are similar, the character development is very different. Red Cranes takes an original path of character development by just starting off the story like it’s just another day and show how the characters talk or interact with each other. The Firefly Hunt has a very different style of character development, Instead of doing the original way, they decided to go with a more direct kind of way.
In Red Cranes, Jiro is the main character. Jiro’s character development was laid out in the first few paragraphs. In the second paragraph it already starts to show how she interacts with other people “”father”said Mie as she sat beside him, “how is the work going today? Do you think the plants will be ready to harvest in time? Do you have enough men to help you” (Choy 2). The first time i read this i thought that she was probably a really good person if she's asking to help harvest plants in the field. Not only does it show how she interacts with others, it also shows how much passion she has “ The red cranes! Father! Please wake me
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Sachiko’s character development is throughout the entire text, not justs one spot. Throughout the whole story she is still going through character development. In the very first paragraph it show how hard of a worker Sachiko is “ She had risen early/ she had been rocked and jolted by train and automobile through the heat of the day, and in the evening she had chased over the fields wh the children, two or three miles it must have been” (Tanizaki 1). This shows how hard of a worker Sachiko is. It even shows Sachiko’s funny side “Not quite the way it looked in the pictures, laughed one of the sisters” (Tanizaki 1). This develops the funny joking side of Sachiko and not only does it do that, but it also show that she is with several