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    Hey guys, I'm coming to today from inside my presentation, so I might pop in and out.

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    You might not be able to see my face the entire time,

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    but we'll see how this goes today's lesson.

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    We're talking about character analysis and we're really

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    trying to get to know our characters,

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    we with the goal of being able to identify these different aspects and explain why

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    they are so important to our story and what kind of effect they can have.

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    So, let's start over here at the very beginning. Very good place.

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    Start start over here with our roles, right? Our characters roles.

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    This could be talking about as simple as how they interact with one another.

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    So maybe a husband, wife, father, son. Those are some different roles.

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    It could also be a father figure that we understand as opposed to the actual father.

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    So how do they interact with one another?

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    What kind of thing are there supposed to be doing within that we have importance,

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    which we're going to look at here.

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    Here are some questions for you to ask about explaining how important character is.

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    Are they a powerful character?

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    Does the character represents something in society that could be

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    either in our society here in the real world,

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    or it could be within the society of our novel.

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    I have the example over here of Elsa, she is a powerful figure in her books,

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    not her book, excuse me, her movies and she is both a queen and a sorceress Sorceress.

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    Right, So that is something significant for them. However,

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    that's not really a thing in the United in here. So, we gotta move on with that.

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    We don't find that very important outside of our novel. All right.

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    And then do they do something significant?

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    Make sure you're asking yourself that question as well,

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    Are they doing anything to bring the plot forward?

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    Alright, so that's an important

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    we're down here at flat and static and I have some examples of well,

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    a flat character is up here at the top by my

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    have it is our characters crap and Doyle from harry potter.

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    We know like nothing about them.

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    We know one thing,

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    therefore they are not changing their very predictable one dimensional,

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    very flat.

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    Like a piece of paper. Then down here on the next level, I have our round characters.

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    They're interesting,

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    we know in different information about them maybe their personality,

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    their thoughts and opinions on things.

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    Next one down is our static characters. This is not necessarily a bad thing.

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    This means a character is still there unchanging.

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    So maybe our wise man in our story or maybe a small child who's just innocent, right?

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    These people are not changing.

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    They're not growing or they're not regressing either, they're staying there.

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    They're being constant

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    down here at the bottom. Over here.

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    Next to my picture of Katniss, we have orange characters that are dynamic.

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    They're changing, they're growing. Uh maybe even regressing.

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    So they're definitely showing us some different things that

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    are really mixing it up in our stories.

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    Alright. Next, we're gonna go on to our traits.

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    So,

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    character traits is our next area that we need to understand

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    and that has to do with our personality of our character,

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    right?

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    I'm breaking that down into strength and weaknesses.

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    So like over here we have our flaws. Alright?

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    So, characters who might have something that

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    maybe hinders them a little bit in the story

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    or something that majorly hinders them in the story.

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    Elsa's minor flaw is the fact that she's afraid of her power.

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    That's not very minor,

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    is it actually because she ends up freezing castle uh Katniss decides to

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    volunteer for Sister. That could have definitely killed her, right?

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    It's a bit of a flaw.

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    Then we have down here we have our

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    positive personality traits and our negative personality traits.

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    These are things that might either help or hinder our characters.

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    They also might be something that is seen as negative or positive in the story,

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    but we think it's just fine or vice versa.

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    Alright, so, we need to keep an eye on those,

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    then we have to talk about. Is there change?

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    There's another very big thing about your personality.

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    Is there a change in your personality?

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    The examples of Katniss once again, her personality,

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    she didn't think it was very hard to go into the Hunger Games.

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    She thought she'd be may be able to survive. She makes friends.

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    She thinks differently about what's going on in the Hunger Games. Uh She has pTSD

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    and then we get her at the end

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    not going to spoil that for you if you've not read.

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    All right. Let's go on from there over here to where my head is.

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    We're gonna go into actions.

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    All right. Do they move how do they act? Right.

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    So,

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    uh think of their actual feet and their actual motions here

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    as well as their behaviors and attitudes over here in behavior.

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    I'm asking what is the impact on others.

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    Specifically, Katniss once again,

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    starting a revolution with the way that she's acting.

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    And then we have our attitude.

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    And this is just asking us uh we're talking about inner struggle specifically.

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    So maybe we are struggling with something

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    or characters struggling with something mentally,

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    but we don't see a whole lot of that because it is inside.

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    We might have to try and glimpse that and see if we can figure it out for ourselves.

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    All right.

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    Those are some possibilities

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    with our actions. Let's go on from actions.

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    We're gonna go on down here to development and change?

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    I have just some questions for us.

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    We need to think about what your development are they growing? Do they grow?

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    Does your character change if they are growing? What is forcing them to change?

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    What is forcing that person to change might affect how they grow, right?

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    They're being forced out. They might be less reluctant.

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    Might be more angry in their attitude.

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    All right. And is this change subtle?

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    Or is it very obvious finally down here in the green circle.

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    I have something I want you to be

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    very intentional about is making sure you compare the

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    person or the character from the beginning of the story all the way to the end.

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    Make sure you do a little, like, checks throughout to see how they are changing.

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    All right

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    now, let's go over across the way we're gonna talk about some dialogue.

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    This is our thoughts and the way we speak. Right?

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    So, I want you to ask yourself, What do they say? How do they speak?

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    Are they speaking a very obvious manner? Are they whispering? Are they shouting?

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    What about their speech patterns? Are they speaking with a southern draw?

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    They speak in front with like a northern accent.

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    Who knows then how are their emotions expressed?

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    That's gonna be very important as well. And I also have over here in our circle.

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    Boom boom, boom boom boom. You need to make sure you're using your quotes over here.

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    I've also shared an example of this.

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    You've got about as much charm as a dead slug that comes to us from The Hunger Games.

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    Alright. And it's a great piece of dialogue.

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    Uh you just get a kind of humor with that

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    and an understanding that I don't think that's a compliment.

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    So

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    very good, very good.

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    Alright. That is dialogue. We're gonna move up here to relationships next.

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    And I've got this lovely wheel of people and

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    how to see how they're all connected with dots.

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    That's how we need to understand this. We need to talk about their interactions.

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    How are they talking with people? What are their thoughts on these interactions?

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    And those thoughts go over here with our views?

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    Maybe I don't see my interactions with certain people as important,

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    but others I do right?

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    Or maybe people see interacting with me slash my character as important,

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    whereas others do not think about and

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    being peace bells interactions with the village,

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    right?

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    It seems kind of warm, but but they're also calling her real weird.

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    So that's just something to consider.

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    Now let's go on to

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    our final one and then that's going to be talking about

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    our inter tensions this specifically talking about the author's intentions,

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    are we talking about the purpose of the character?

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    So maybe they are there to be some innocent for us to really think about and trying

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    to understand and feel sorry for or maybe the

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    author is trying to communicate something to us.

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    Something like our theme or ideas. How does the character deal with that?

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    How does they relate to that?

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    Alright, and those are all of our pieces of our nice little character analysis,

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    make sure you finish your notes,

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    rewatch if you need to and then come talk to me or some other ones,

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    Some other people in the class.

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    If you have any questions