Friday, February 13, 2015

Character 

Characterization

Behaviour

Physical Description

Personality/Emotion

Dialogue

Other characters’ perspectives

Symbolic elements

Interactions with others

Context! Where is she? When is she? What is the cultural situation? etc

Protagonist - lead character

the main character

this one is the one in whom we journey to see the story

the protagonist is the representative of the reader

this has a lot of power and adds some interesting elements

Red Dragon - by Thomas Harris

Will Graham - lead character - good guy - FBI agent - profiler, etc

Francis Dolarhyde - serial killer, abuse victime, tormented, lonely, damaged psychopath - antagonist

the switch of POV in Red Dragon is an incredible feeling, and it’s unsettling and it gives us a very different look at the “bad guy”

A Game of Thrones - Bran falls off the tower - SHOCK

lead characters (POV characters) die in this series - very disturbing

People literally LOVE Harry Potter - for real

But that POV comes from the writer and the reader, not the character

We cannot help but to associate with whomever is the POV - this is amazing

The POV of that character is misleading, potentially - Harry Potter’s view of Snape is dead wrong and we just assume he’s right

Secondary characters - they usually exist to reflect something back onto the main elements of the story - the POV, the antagonist, the textures of the setting, etc

Secondaries also act as drivers of plot - they can hurt or help the POV character’s journey - the best secondaries are the lead characters in their own stories - they’re actually doing things - bad secondaries are placeholders

Rich for One Day - 

Read a story of this woman’s POV

Then evaluate her POV - why does she think what she thinks? 

Consider, find evidence and discuss

How do you evaluate her vision of “being rich”?

What is your vision of her life - your opinion?

You have just been given 100 billion dollars and you can only keep it if you spend in a way that I decide is cool/good/awesome/worth it. Convince me to give you the money

February 13, 2015 - The Luckiest Day of the Year - because there is no such thing as bad luck