How can an author show characterization?

Answer 1

YOu might as well ask how an author can NOT show characterization. If you do your character studies and flesh out your characters, you are showing characterization. Know your characters as well as you know your best friends. Know how they would respond in any given situation. Don't you know that about your best friends? About your enemies? That is the basis behind characterization. Making your characters your friends or enemies.


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They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.

Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.

Pax - C

Answer 2

What is characterization?
the way the author reveals the character's personality through words, action, and thoughts.

the authors shows characterization by describing, using words to identify a character, or tell wha the character is doing.

Brian

Answer 3

I take exhilaration in personality pushed novels besides. the following is a diverse crew of novels i have loved for that reason. JM Coetzee - waiting for the Barbarians John Updike - Run, Rabbit, Run Cormac McCarthy - the line Jack Kerouac - on the line Robert Graves - I, Claudius Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western the front Daniel Keyes - flora For Algernon

Answer 4

Re-scetch the details of your main and potential characters - start with looks, mannerisms, background, etc. Write the details down - or even draw them if you are a visual person.

Then take your main character or characters and imagine them in some new odd/out of the ordinary (out of your current work's context) places or scenarios – anything goes! Write down ideas on what would have to happen to your type of character or how they would react to the scenario you placed them in.

This may seem futile, but it will help you flesh out your characters further and give you insight into what you may want to happen to this type of character in a potential story. You may even come up with multiple story lines and can see if one of them just seems to be the best or easiest to continue

Strong well-crafted main characters can inspire readers to love your story as well as drive you to write a great story for these imagined beings to be in! :-)

This should get you going. Then you may want to write an outline of you story (a kind of synopsis), including the ending. I have heard that John Irving writes his endings first, down to the last line, and works backwards. The idea of the outline is to give you goals as you proceed. Writing the ending first may give you the "spark" you seek - and also

Answer 5

well in the way he describes his characters. and most of the time when an author writes a story then he takes examples from his life and the people he sees everyday!

Answer 6

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