Based on the passage and events before:
- Wing and Audrey have a close relationship where they can tease each other lightheartedly. The phrase suggests familiarity and comfort between them.
- Wing keeps to himself at school and avoids those who tease him. He doesn't shine but works hard and is polite. This implies he is introverted and doesn't socialize much with his schoolmates. Their relationship seems casual as he doesn't interact with them beyond what is necessary.
7. Character Roles
MAIN Characters
Central character in the story
Responsible for driving the plot forward.
MINOR Characters
Do not play significant roles in the plot.
8. Character Roles
MAIN Characters
Central character in the story
Responsible for driving the plot forward.
MINOR Characters
Do not play significant roles in the plot.
To complement main characters
9. Character Roles
MAIN Characters
Central character in the story
Responsible for driving the plot forward.
MINOR Characters
Do not play significant roles in the plot.
To complement main characters
Will the story be significantly affected if the character is taken out
of the story?
15. Character Purposes
Readers understand the storyline, issues and underlying
messages through the characters. Characters show the reader
what the story is about.
16. Character Purposes
Readers understand the storyline, issues and underlying
messages through the characters. Characters show the reader
what the story is about.
Readers become emotionally connected to the text through the
characters. When the main character is happy, we feel happy.
17. Character Purposes
Readers understand the storyline, issues and underlying
messages through the characters. Characters show the reader
what the story is about.
Readers become emotionally connected to the text through the
characters. When the main character is happy, we feel happy.
Good stories have strong, complex, believable characters.
19. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
20. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
21. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
22. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
23. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
24. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
25. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
26. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
27. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
28. Character Function
Type Description
Protagonist Main character
Antagonist Opposing force to main character
Round characters Complex & changing personalities
Flat characters Predictable, easily classifiable
30. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
31. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
32. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
33. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
34. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
35. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
36. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
37. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
38. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
39. Character Function
Type Description
Narrator Person who tells the story
Troublemaker Person or group who causes a problem
Catalyst Character who accelerates the process or event
Mentor Person who helps the main character
41. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
42. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
43. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
44. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
45. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
46. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
47. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
48. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
49. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
50. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
51. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
52. Who plays what in Spiderman?
Character Type
Spiderman Protagonist
Green Goblin Troublemaker / Antagonist
Ben Parker Mentor
Mary Jane Watson Round character
May Parker Catalyst
53. Who plays what in Heartland?
Character Type
Wing Protagonist
Chloe
Joshua
Madam Lee
Sham
Audrey
55. What can we learn from characters?
Character Analysis: making informed choices about the
characters inner personality through looking at outward
appearance or behavioral characteristics.
56. What can we learn from characters?
Character Analysis: making informed choices about the
characters inner personality through looking at outward
appearance or behavioral characteristics.
To understand hidden motivations behind what they say/do
57. What can we learn from characters?
Character Analysis: making informed choices about the
characters inner personality through looking at outward
appearance or behavioral characteristics.
To understand hidden motivations behind what they say/do
To know why they behave in a certain way
58. What can we learn from characters?
Character Analysis: making informed choices about the
characters inner personality through looking at outward
appearance or behavioral characteristics.
To understand hidden motivations behind what they say/do
To know why they behave in a certain way
To understand their situation and background
65. Father & Son by Catherine Lim
In school he was neither happy nor unhappy. He avoided those
boys who teased him and tried to touch him. There was one, a
brutal-looking fellow with a powerful, atheletic body, who
stalked him during recess to tease him... He always did his work
well, although he never shone. He was always polite so his
teachers had no cause to be dissatified with him.
69. What can you tell
about the personality
of each person?
70. What can you tell
about the personality
of each person?
71. What can you tell
about the personality
of each person?
72. What can you tell
about the personality
of each person?
73. What can you tell
about the personality
of each person?
74. Application
Each group is to focus on any chapter covered so far in
Heartland and brainstorm possibles words to describe the
characters in a table like the following:
Trait Action/Feeling Evidence/page
Had to be asked about
Introverted Pg....
his CMPB trip
75. What can you tell about these 2
characters based on their actions
and behavior?
77. Relationships
Indicators of a character’s relationship
Eg hypocrite if he behaves differently in the presence of
others.
What other characters think of the main character in question.
See pg 173
82. Exercise 15G
Discuss James’ attitude toward Ethel Richards
Disgust - intense pride in his background
Looks down on their poverty
83. Exercise 15G
Discuss James’ attitude toward Ethel Richards
Disgust - intense pride in his background
Looks down on their poverty
Considers them uncivilized and rough.
84. Exercise 15G
Discuss James’ attitude toward Ethel Richards
Disgust - intense pride in his background
Looks down on their poverty
Considers them uncivilized and rough.
Suspects them of poor values
86. Exercise 15G
James is filled with disgust toward Ethel, probably because of racial pride. The
author uses “geragoks” as a derogatory term used to describe Ethel’s people.
87. Exercise 15G
James is filled with disgust toward Ethel, probably because of racial pride. The
author uses “geragoks” as a derogatory term used to describe Ethel’s people.
He also looks down on their poverty because they were “always dead broke”. He
looks down on them because they do not work for a living and constantly gamble
and borrow money.
88. Exercise 15G
James is filled with disgust toward Ethel, probably because of racial pride. The
author uses “geragoks” as a derogatory term used to describe Ethel’s people.
He also looks down on their poverty because they were “always dead broke”. He
looks down on them because they do not work for a living and constantly gamble
and borrow money.
He thinks they are rough and uncivilized, “always fighting”. Even their appearance
is unkempt and their behavoir ill discipline. This is probably because the parents
let them run around like wild children.
89. Exercise 15G
James is filled with disgust toward Ethel, probably because of racial pride. The
author uses “geragoks” as a derogatory term used to describe Ethel’s people.
He also looks down on their poverty because they were “always dead broke”. He
looks down on them because they do not work for a living and constantly gamble
and borrow money.
He thinks they are rough and uncivilized, “always fighting”. Even their appearance
is unkempt and their behavoir ill discipline. This is probably because the parents
let them run around like wild children.
His suspcicion that the radio must be stolen by them is based on poor family
upbringing as their parents “let them sit around watching card games till they fell
asleep...”
90. Passage-based Exercise
Heartland page 27 - 28
What do you think the phrase “oh no, you’re so dressed... Sorry,
OK? Very sloppy.” suggest about Wing’s and Audrey’s
relationship? What else can you infer about their relationship
with each other from this passage?
By close reference to events before this point in the novel, how
does Wing compare to his schoolmates? What sort of
relationship do they have?
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Ask: what happens if a characters speech is inconsistent with his behavior? The reader will be confused.\nWhat happens if the main character is unrealistic? The reader will not believe the character and therefore will not be engaged to the text.\n\n
Ask: what happens if a characters speech is inconsistent with his behavior? The reader will be confused.\nWhat happens if the main character is unrealistic? The reader will not believe the character and therefore will not be engaged to the text.\n\n
Ask: what happens if a characters speech is inconsistent with his behavior? The reader will be confused.\nWhat happens if the main character is unrealistic? The reader will not believe the character and therefore will not be engaged to the text.\n\n
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