Cue For Treason – Characteriza,on
Characterization is the process by which the writer reveals the personality of the character. This happens through either DIRECT or INDIRECT characterization. A) Direct Characterization – The narrator or another character tells us what a person is like. Ex. The boy was angry at his sister. B) Indirect Characterization – the narrator shows us things that reveal the personality of a character and requires the reader to look for clues that reveal the traits and motivations. Indirect characterization can occur through the following methods (STEAL): Speech
What does the character say? How does the character speak?
Thoughts
What is revealed through the character’s private thoughts and feelings?
Effect on other
characters
What is revealed through the character’s effect on other people? How do other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character?
Actions
What does the character do? How does the character behave?
Looks
What does the character look like? How does the character dress?
Ex. The young boy’s face was flushed red and the vein at the base of
his neck pulsed furiously. His words were loud and harsh and were
punctuated by the glass he threw across the room which smashed a few
short feet away from where his sister sat, motionless and afraid.
Character Quotations: Hold on… What’s a quotation? A quotation includes speciFic words from the novel. A quotation does not need to be only when someone is talking… that is ‘dialogue’. It is anything that author has written. A quotation is signiBicant when it reveals something to us about the character (such as a personality trait, a belief or feeling, an action OR how the character is viewed by others).
Task: For each quotation listed in the chart, identify A) what you learn about the character, B) which method (STEAL) helps you to learn it (sometimes this information is given to you) and C) how the quotation helps you to learn it.
Quotation
A) Character
&
What you Learn?
B) Which of STEAL?
C) How do You Know?
(explain)
(underline one)
(state a quality)
Peter: “I was frightened -­‐ and not ashamed to admit it.” (28) -­‐Peter
-­‐afraid
“My friend is a magistrate,” Sir Philip was saying, “and you’ll realize that, if he likes, he can forbid your play altogether and ruin your tour in this part of the country. So you better be civil.” (43)
Sir Philip Morton
Speech
Thoughts
-­‐Peter is afraid because only he knows the importance of the hat and his Effect on Others involvement in the wall/rock incident
-­‐shows he knows that the consequences Actions of his act will lead to a punishment
Looks
-­‐explains his motivation to take the drastic action of leaving home to stay safe
Speech
Thoughts
Effect on Others
Actions Looks
Quotation
A) Character
&
What you Learn?
B) Which of STEAL?
(underline one)
(state a quality)
“We met you on the Kendal road. Mr. Desmond
We cannot remember ever having seen you before. You have an honest look. It naturally does not occur to us to associate you with the youthful criminal of Penrith. No one can ever accuse my company of knowingly harbouring a fugitive from justice.” (54-­‐55)
Speech
Thoughts
“I’ve run away from home, for -­‐ for my own very good reasons...I have no father or mother. Or Five sisters...I had to invent them, to account for the way I knew how to curtsey and all that. “ (86)
Kit
Speech
Thoughts
“What’s this? What’s this?” he stormed, almost as if we had kicked Desmond ourselves and broken his leg. “Desmond injured? Won’t be in London for a month? I wanted that man. I needed him. Tell him he’s got to get better. I want him on this stage if he has to walk with two sticks! Tell him that!” (93)
Mr. Burbage
“He feasted us handsomely that night...He listened to our tales of Desmond’s company and laughed when he heard our poor reception at Stratford-­‐
Upon_avon...Shakespeare Filled our stomachs with supper and our hearts with hope...”(99-­‐100)
Shakespeare
“I couldn’t act like that to save my life, but, as Shakespeare said I was a pretty good mimic. I remembered the way Kit used to speak each line ,the words she stressed, the rise and fall of her voice. I knew her moves too and the way she looked when she spoke certain lines…My Juliet was like a looking-­‐glass reFlection of hers.” (109)
Peter
“I could get up to that window,” I said at last. “I’d need a boat and...let me see...say, half a dozen daggers.” (128)
Peter
“There’s no danger for me -­‐ I’m an actor. I can do this on my head. Pete,” she added accusingly, “you’re doing what you swore you wouldn’t -­‐ treating me as a girl!” (129)
Kit
“A shabby little man he seemed, with a bald forehead and very few teeth -­‐ the sort of man you’d never remember having seen before. I suppose that was one reason why he made such a good agent.” (156)
Tom Boyd
Effect on Others
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Thoughts
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Thoughts
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Speech
Thoughts
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C) How do You Know?
(explain)