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February 06, 2006
Roberts, "Writing About Character"
Roberts on Character -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
"But when authors bring characters into focus, no matter what roles they perform, the characters emerge from flatness into roundness."
In quite a huge way, isn't this what literature really is? In my own definition of literature, its enormous main goal is to highlight character for us, and this highlighting of character is accomplished by taking a person and adding or removing layers. Roberts gave us a couple of narrow examples of characters who start as flat and become round in the course of the story, but I think this can be applied to the protagonists of any work of literature. What do you think?
Posted by MeganRitter at February 6, 2006 04:01 PM