CHARACTER
A character is the person,people,animals or
imaginary creatures in the story that take part in
the action of a story.
Example: Tom and Jerry are character from the old
cartoon, TOM AND JERRY.
Character Development is
when a character
changes in the story to
make a story have more
twists and turns.
Example: in the book
Touching Sprit Bear,
Cole Mathews goes
from a troubled teenage
boy to a kind caring
human Being.
Static character
• In fiction,drama, or literary nonfiction the
characters undergo little or no change.
Example: In the novel,
The True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle,
Zachariah stays the same
through out the whole
novel.
– Dynamic character-a character that changes significantly
during the story.
Example: In the book Touching Spirit
Bear, Cole Mathews goes from hard
criminal teenage outcast to a nature
loving softie.
The setting of a story,
poem or play is the time
and place of the action.
Example: In the book, The
Devils Arithmetic, the
setting is Poland in the
late stages of WWll.
The conflict is a struggle between two
forces. There are two types of
conflicts, internal and external.
Internal is a conflict a character is
dealing with inside them and
external is when a character has
other characters involved in the
conflict.
Example: In the book, Touching Sprit
Bear, Cole Mathews has an internal
conflict with his emotions, but then
the conflict becomes external when
he starts to take out his anger on
other people.
Theme
• Definition:the
meaning, lesson,
or moral of a
story
• Example: a
commonly used
theme is “don’t
judge a book by
it’s cover”
• Definition:
the person
that tells the
story or
helps the
story
“move”
• Example:
Brian is the
narrator in
“Hatchet”
• Example: the
book,Touching Spirit
Bear is in third person
but it has Cole
Matthews thoughts
• Definitions:
a:1st person a character is the
narrator
b:2nd person like a letterwhen one person addresses another
directly
c:3rd person the narrator is not
a character
The plot is the series of events that
happens in the story. Plots have
complicated structures. They
have, an exposition, the rising
action, a climax, and a falling
action.
Example: In some books they have
a grand opening of a store.
They have to work hard to
make it and then they get to cut
the opening ribbon.