1.) What is the protagonist, or might there be more than one? Why and how so? Which other characters, if any, are main or major characters? Which are the minor characters?
Protagonists are the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem. In some works of literature there is more than one protagonist. One reason there is more than one protagonist is there are many types of protagonist. Main characters are the ones who usually tell the story or make the story. Minor characters are the ones who occur periodically throughtout a story and fill in gaps.
2.) What are the protagonist’s most distinctive traits, and what is most distinctive about his or her outlook and values? What motivates the character? What is it about the character that creates internal and/or external conflict?
The prtoagonist is usually the good guy or the so called “hero”. The protagonist outlook is usually to save the day and this is also the motivation of the protagonist. Usullay the antagonist gets in the way of the protagonist but, not always. The character that usually creates the internal and/or external conflict is the antagonist.
3.) Which textual deatails and moments reveal most about this character? Which are most surprising or might complicate your inerpretaion of this character? How is your view of the character affected by what you don’t know about him or her?
Textual details is really just anything about the character from features to the way one speaks. One usually orecieves the character how one reads it. So the one rellaies completely on the narrator and the textual deatils.
4.) What are the roles of other characters? Which, if any, functions as an antagonist? Which, if any, serves as a foil? Why and how so? How would the story as a whole (not just its action or plot) be different if any of these characters disappeared? What points might the author be raising or illustrating through each character?
The role of other characters are to fill out the story, these characters are known as minor characters. Minor characters usually serve as foils. These characters usually do not function as antagonist because they usually do not appear enough to be antagonist. If these characters disappeared you really would not get the full affect of the story since they are used to fill in.
5.) Which of the characters, or which aspects of the characters, does the text encourage us to sympathize with or to admire? To view negatively? Why and how so?
The text encourages you to admire the main character or protagonist. It wants you to dislike the antagonist and gives you the choice about other minor characters.
6.) Does your view of any character change over the course of the story, or do any of the characters themselves change because of the events in the story? If so, when, how, and why?
Yes, your view of the characters can change over the course of the story. Reason being some characters do not turn out to be the people or things you thought they was.
7.) Does characterization tend to be indirect or direct in the story? What kinds of information do and don’t we get about the characters, and how does the story tend to give us that information?
Sometimes the author makes the characterization of a protagonist is indirect. The author does not always give us all the information because they want us to connect the dots through sometimes minor characters.