Character

As I read about character the assigned reading, I realize that I usually put myself as the character in most stories I read. When I am the character I still have to what the author says I do, like a puppet on a string, but the experiences that the character gets allows me to predict what I would do next or respond to something happening. This usually allows me to figure out where the story is going. If I were to mimic the characteristics and virtues of the main character, I can understand his feelings. Obviously I would have trouble being a female character that usually why I stay away from any kind of girly novels. But one thing this reading has taught me to notice is that there are many things that make up a “character”. How the character looks at themselves and how others look at them affects the protagonists and antagonist indefinitely.

Another thing that this reading has taught me is that the antagonist and protagonist can sometimes be the opposite of the literary norm. Think of some movies that you have seen where the hero was more of a bad guy, while the antagonist was on the side of good. It is strange that books and novels can show the perspective of the opposite side of the norm. I think that is one of the things that make literature interesting. You can create a world that no one has ever seen, or you can just add to what everyone already knows. Gone with the Wind was one of the greatest films ever made, and it just created a story around a real event. Lord of the Rings is my favorite book series, as is for many others, and it was completely thought up inside the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien.