Example Of A Flat Character Essay

In Tulsa Burning by “Anna Myers” there are a lot of characters that are both flat and round. If you did not know already, a flat character is a character that throughout the story they only show one trait or side and a round character is characters that have many sides and grow and change throughout the story. Two examples of a flat character in the book Tulsa Burning are Sheriff Leonard and Isaac. These characters are flat characters because they never change throughout the book. Two examples of round characters from Tulsa Burning are Nobe Chase and Lester. These characters are round because they continue to change throughout the book from beginning to end. Sheriff Leonard is a flat character because his character traits

Isaac at the beginning of the book is a kind African American who is Nobe’s best friend. One day, Nobe received a beating from his father and went down to the river to cool off. Isaac had also gone down to the river but he came down there to fish. On that day Nobe became Isaac’s best friend and they continued to be best friends. Isaac was always friendly to Nobe and almost everyone since beginning of the book till the end of the book. Therefore, Isaac truly is a flat

Throughout the book, Sheriff Leonard continues to be cruel and malicious and Isaac continues to be friendly and. In contrast Nobe Chase and Lester Cotton are both round characters because they both change throughout the book. Nobe changes from thinking almost nothing else but getting revenge on the sheriff to not hating the sheriff as much and able to think about other things; Lester changes from a African American who is cranky and cares for only himself to a man who learns to care about another person that