Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Passage 1...Wednesday 2/8
In this passage I think you get a sense of characterization. The boys found a pig caught in some thorns, which gave them a perfect opportunity to kill it. However When Jack got his knife, he couldn't bring himself to kill it. When the pig gets away Jack tries to come up with a reasons why he didn't get to kill it. From this we figure out that he gets scared like everyone else, and that he doesn't like to look weak. "He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm." and "I was choosing a place,” said Jack. “I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him.”" then they point out why he hadn't done it, "They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood." The effect of characterization on a book is that you get to know a certain person well. The effect of that is you get to see and understand why that person does what he does, why did they just say that, why did they just do that, you learn about that character.
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This is a great example of characterization. What kind of person are we led to believe that Jack is? What I mean is, what impression does Golding give us? Characterization does, as you say, help us understand the characters better but why is the way an author characterizes important?
ReplyDeleteI think were led to believe that Jack, at that point in the story, is just like a normal person. He doesn't want to kill anything because he is afraid. The way an author characterizes is important because without the authors descriptions, we wouldn't be able to relate to the characters. The characterization helps bring the characters to life, so we can feel with them, and get to know them.
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