Every story has likable characters in order to make things more interesting. For instance Alby expresses the leader role. He is always helping out and tries to take charge. For readers who can relate, it makes him that much more likable. Likable characters tend to be ones you can relate with or ones you look up too.
How a character acts and what their personality is can describe their character trait. Sometimes characters are different in their traits, oftenly characters can be the same by changing or revising their own character trait. The protagonist is Doug from Okay for Now, by Gary Schmidt. Doug is a teenage boy that is struggling with a rough family. Doug 's father got a new job that was far away from his own town so, Doug has to adapt to the town that he moved to.
All stories have a protagonist and then the minor character's. Protagonist, the main characters stand by character. Although we already know that every book contains minor characters, But do your know they are their for a reason. Minor characters who have been involved with the main character's make their thoughts and opinions on them. How the minor character's act, how they reflect the protagonist's personality and how they change them in a way as well as perceive.
Characters in stories sometimes follow a theme when it comes to their traits. These traits are called archetypes. Archetypes can be as simple as a villain or hero. They can also be used to portray unfathomable human characteristics that exists in everyone. Characteristics such as greed, lust, envy, pride, sloth, and gluttony are examples.
Percy Jackson and the lightning thief is about the offspring of poseidon and a mortal, going on a quest with his friends to find Zeus’ missing lightning bolt. The bolt went missing and Percy Jackson is accused of taking it. This is an excellent book that was made into a film. Though the film was good it was very different from the book.
A good example of a character is Bertrande. Coras describes Bertrande as “ “given the weakness of sex, (was) easily deceived by the cunning and craftiness of men.” (Davis, pg 110). He (Coras) considered her ignorant of Arnaud 's true identity, hence innocent of wrongdoing.” (Finlay, pg 555) Davis however describes Bertrande as known more as an honorable and independent character who acts more like a hero rather than evil.
One example is Boo Radley. Jem describes the stereotype of Boo, this description of Boo is extremely vivid. They say that he has sharp teeth, blood stains on his hands from feeding off of animals, he’s tall, and scrawny. The three kids were very curious about what Boo was like. People believe that he a bad guy because he allegedly stabbed his dad in the leg with a pair of scissors , but he’s a good character and saves Jem and Scouts life from Bob Ewell trying to get back at Atticus for making a fool out of him in front of the town.
All readers have come across the stereotypical character who is charming, good-looking, and the savior of the story and our hearts, but that is present in commercial fiction. In literary fiction, characters are something greater and deeper. In literary fiction, characterization is considered one of the most important elements in an author’s work. Characterization is the concept of creating a character.
Character is a literary term that is very important when reading any story or poem. The literary term character can be defined as the person or thing that the story or literature focuses on. For example, usually in a story or poem, there is a central character that will experience some type of change. The change can be physical, mental or emotional. In the story “A&P,” which was written by John Updike, Sammy was the central character in the story.
There are differences in what the reader thinks a character is like and what a character is written to be. Once the character is written, it is written with characteristics that create its personality. A good character is like a painting, the details that are put in, some details will stick out. So these details can make a resemblance of the setting, mood, or everything in the story, and those details are the characteristics that make a good protagonist. The trait that creates a good protagonist is bravery.
Archetypes: The Key to all Literature Characters, almost every book there is has at least one, though there are some repeating of character types or characteristics that they might share. This is called an archetype, it’s basically a typical character or an action/situation that represents patterns of human nature. An archetype could also be a universal symbol, a theme, or it could even be a setting. Overall, to better understand literature, one must be able to recognize archetypes.
Characters are what you want to make them, they exist in order to serve a particular role in the plot. For example, in Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky makes Marmeladov an important role in the story. Although Raskolnikov had his own problems, he was very worried for his friend Marmeladov and his family. When they first meet, he says to Raskolnikov “poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkenness is not a virtue, and that that's even truer.
We all have friends that may treat us differently. Whether it’s them helping one another, or just them focussing in on specific person in their/the friend group. The two J.K Rowling books Sorcerers Stone and Chamber of secrets both have plenty of symbolism within them, and some messages about friendship. But a difference between the texts is that the Sorcerer's Stone shows more of all the the friends helping one another throughout the book, while the Chamber of Secrets is more of the friends, Ron and Hermione, focussing in on Harry and helping him succeed. J.K Rowling uses symbols a good amount in both books to show power to something, whether it’s an object or person such as Harry, the Stone, the Chamber, etc., or to show a hidden message/theme within the text.
Main characters ensure audience sympathy and support through having positive qualities such as compassion and probity or loyalty. They are always supposed to triumph over their enemies. For these qualities of main characters to be established and brought out, supporting character requires possessing contradicting traits. The supporting characters, therefore, end up having odd personality traits necessary to function effectively in unfolding the admirable personalities of the main characters.
Stories contain many characters with some that stand out more than the others. A person is considered the protagonist depending on who is telling the story and what story is being told. The protagonist is the main character in a literary work. Whether good or evil, the audience sympathize with the protagonist and understands the motif of the character. Beowulf is a protagonist whose encounters with evil proves him to be a strong heroic warrior.
