ENG 107 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Externals

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 107
• Professor: Andrew Milward

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In nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama, there are essentially five possible methods of presenting a character to the reader: directly. Character as desire: the importance of desire in creating character can scarcely be overstated. Character as voice about the deep desire and the immediate desire: yearning to indicate its poignant and obsessive nature. In thinking about your character"s desire, it"s a good idea to think both generally and specifically, or: let your readers get to know these people you"ve created. In fiction, nonfiction, or poems, direct dialogue of this sort is lively and vivid but sometimes the narrative needs to cover ground faster, and then dialogue may be indirect or summarized. If we grant that discovery and decision are two agents of human change, characters will be in action when these are possible. Character as thought: although discovery and decision necessarily imply thought, image, speech, and action are all external manifestations.