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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