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    Essay On Flat Character

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    Alex Bennett English-HL2 Moore 3A Reflective Statement Stock and flat characters are essential in writing novels. They either help the main character or they harm them in some way. In terms of Waiting for Godot, most of the characters all tie in with each other in good and bad ways. One character that had a big influence on the book was Didi. However, since he is a main character, he does not influence the flat characters, they affect him. For example, Didi and his constant wanting to commit suicide

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    and go in our lives; it is part of life. The minor characters, a small part of our lives, can impact our lives in indescribable ways. Similarly to Antigone, a play written by Sophocles in 442 BC, contains many twist and turns in the play which leads to many “classmates” that impacts the story. In various ways, Antigone shows that minor characters can make significant impacts such as foretelling the future, integrating development with main characters and affecting the plot. The ability of foreseeing

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    Convincing Characters in Graham Greene’s “The Destructors” The character Blackie in the short story “The Destructors” is a convincing character because he displays traits that are found in real people. Convincing characters are similar to round characters, because they “are complex and many sided; they have the three-dimensional quality of real people”(Johnson, Arp 144). On the other hand, a flat character is the opposite of a round character, and only displays one to two character traits. This generally

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    American novelist famous for his works in the American horror genre. A popular author in the genre, McCammon published his first novel in Baal in 1978 and has gone on to publish numerous titles and series that have achieved commercial success. The character Michael Gallatin is the protagonist in two of McCammon’s most popular series of novels The Wolf Hour and The Hunter from the Woods. The novels center on Gallatin’s work as a British spy working who is asked to come out of retirement to infiltrate

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    where the backstories of characters are introduced, prior events are shown and the mood is set. Next comes the rising action, the rising action creates tensions, moves the main plot forward

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    Taste of Melon: Mr. Wills Character Analysis Nov. 17 2017 In ‘The Taste of Melon’ by Borden Deal, the character of Mr. Wills is written as a round/complex character. Mr. Wills exhibits three main traits throughout the story, and those traits do not change. First is his success as a farmer, second is his emotional personality, and third is his intimidating and frightening demeanor and reputation. While it may be easy to say that Mr. Wills is a dynamic character, his core traits never change

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    Annotated Bibliography: Character Emptiness is always a daily question to each person walking on the street. Human consciousness is the ultimate level among species: the capability of thinking about the future in many scenes and real-life situations. Throughout various stages of education, one’s perspective grows wider; one proceeds to see things further, and the true size of one’s value to the world. The more knowledge is absorbed, the bigger this capability grows. Meanwhile, the present does

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    Dill Character Analysis

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    Many people may think minor characters don't contribute at all to the structure of a book. But much of the importance of a minor character comes from the way they help shape other major characters. Along with forming these elements, minor characters also help develop and set up new themes throughout the book. They support the progression in the plot while giving additional understandings about the major characters. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a complex novel that gives insights into the

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    Goon Squad Characters

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    A Visit from The Goon Squad is such a complex novel. If we make a map of the characters of the novel, we will find out that there are so many characters which are related. Sasha can be classified as the main character after Bennie Salazar because she is in many chapters in the novel. From the perspective of the novel’s point of view, we will realize after reading the first three chapters of the novel that the novel is a non-linear narrative with various point of views in each chapter where the readers

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    reason, a high percentage of that is because you like the character from the start. Character changes is most complex and intriguing part of any story. Either if the character is growing or lessening, you’ll still end up with a tale. Milkweed goes through a lot of character changes. The given theme for this novel is about “when you own nothing, it’s easy to let things go.” The character in particular we’re going to talk about is the main character. From what we foresight to be the antagonist, who is actually

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