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Discover the essence of character in storytelling. Learn about static and dynamic characters, from antiheroes to traditional heroes. Examples like Miss Emily, Sarty, Sammy, and superhero movies illustrate how characters evolve in narratives.
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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.