One of the many tools authors can use when they write short stories is character development. One such author that creates two contrasting yet comparable characters in his stories is Robert Carver. In the short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver‚ we see three main characters. The characters include the blind man‚ Robert‚ the blind man’s friend‚ the wife‚ and her husband. Throughout the story Carver sets up Robert‚ the blind man‚ and her friend’s husband to be contrasted in a variety of ways‚
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Character Analysis In Runaway Girl by Carissa Phelps the reader knows from the beginning that the main character‚ Carissa‚ can’t stand discipline and runs away when authority steps in her way. Nevertheless‚ she creates friendships with people she thinks she can trust‚ but only ends up getting hurt by their dishonesty and greediness. Carissa is a rebellious‚ stubborn‚ independent child who grows into something amazing after all the dramatic tragedies that took part in her life. Carissa is
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plot is affected by three minor characters: Ben‚ Charley and Howard. The minor characters help the story’s protagonist‚ Willy‚ develop extensively throughout the course of the play; therefore‚ they are key elements in the advancing story line. This story line blends and contrasts Willy’s closest companions‚ Ben and Charley. They represent two aspects of Willy’s ideals. Howard‚ Willy’s boss‚ functions in order to heighten the destruction of Willy’s dream. The characters Ben‚ Charley and Howard are influential
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world appeared as a well functioning nation‚ inside‚ people were beginning to suffer from the disease of corruption. “The cause and effect relationship begins to quickly spread the disease throughout the characters” (unknown author). In Hamlet‚ we see that as the play progresses‚ three main characters become rotten with corruption; Claudius‚ Polonius and Hamlet. Claudius and Hamlet try to hide it at first‚ but it soon becomes too much and they eventually can‘t hold it in any longer. Polonius on the
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Characters sketches Professor Henry Higgins - Henry Higgins is a professor of phonetics who plays Pygmalion to Eliza Doolittle’s Galatea. He is the author of Higgins’ Universal Alphabet‚ believes in concepts like visible speech‚ and uses all manner of recording and photographic material to document his phonetic subjects‚ reducing people and their dialects into what he sees as readily understandable units. He is an unconventional man‚ who goes in the opposite direction from the rest of society
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In Alexander Mackendrick’s 1957 classic‚ Sweet Smell of Success‚ the character of J.J. Hunsecker is extremely powerful‚ respected and lonely. This is also true of the character Jerry Langford in Scorsese’s 1983 film‚ The King of Comedy. Both character’s share positions of supremacy and therefore can be easily contrasted with reference to their similarities and differences. J.J. is the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York‚ thus yielding authority with his command over the press. Jerry is
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novel A Separate Peace ‚ used his characters to explore concepts related to youth and maturation. The four most prominent characters he utilizes are Brinker Hadley‚ Elwin “Leper” Lepellier‚ Gene Forester‚ and Phineas. Brinker and Leper are used by Knowles to contrast Gene and Finny as characters‚ highlight their relationship‚ and exemplify the different forms of friendship. Brinker is the character that is most used to contrast Gene and Finny’s individual character traits. Gene‚ the narrator‚ notes
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Haniff 1 Katsura Katorou Mrs. Sixty Nine ENG1DO-1 December 27‚ 2013 Character Not Color “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin‚ but by the content of their character.”-Martin Luther King Jr. In The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd tries to tell the reader that as individuals we can display complex body of characteristics and personality traits regardless of race or ethnicity. She illustrates this
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In a variety of literature‚ main characters struggle with defining their personalities as their experiences alter and change who they are. In Neal Shusterman’s Unwind‚ one of the main characters‚ Lev Calder‚ has a major personality change from the beginning to the end of the book. When the reader first meets Lev‚ he is portrayed as a naive‚ arrogant tithe‚ eagerly awaiting his unwinding. However‚ by the end of the book‚ Lev is independent and rebellious‚ very much against unwinding. His change from
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Adopt a Character Assignments 1. Using the information from your Adopt a Character sheet‚ fill in the Bio Cube‚ cut it out‚ and cube it. The link for the Bio Cube is on my website under resources. 2. Using the information from the Adopt a Character sheet‚ write a detailed character sketch of your adopted character. This is a creative piece. Stretch your writing and your imagination! On my website‚ there is an example of a character sketch and there are directions on how to write a
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