Characterization

1. Characterization • Character • Is an imagined person who inhabits a story • Good writing always has some motivation behind the character. • Type • Static flat, unmoving, unchanging • Dynamic round, changing • Antihero we can relate to them • Hero literal, extravagant, traditional, ex: superhero’s in movies • Example • Static Miss Emily in “A Rose for Emily” was an unchanging character. Her life stayed the same and she never did anything new. • Dynamic Sarty in “Barn Burning” was a changing character. He began to have his own identity rather than his fathers and went a different direction. • Antihero  Sammy in “A&P” was a character that we could closely relate to because he was like a typical person and thought the same way as we did. • Hero In most typical movies superhero movies is where we find the traditional hero character.