Character development can be defined as the elements in a narrative that provide a character’s qualities. This development may be direct, as when a narrator or other character describes a character directly, or indirect, as when figurative language or a character’s actions, word choices, or conflicts indicate a character’s qualities. Choose one of the works of fiction that have been assigned this term and choose the character you think to be the most fully developed in it. Then write an essay arguing for that character’s most important quality and using examples of character development from the story to support your thesis.
Successful essays will 1) have a clear thesis statement, 2) be responsive to the prompt, 3) support the essay’s thesis by identifying details from a literary text and explaining how they support the analysis in the essay, and 4) using the conventions of MLA style to cite quoted or paraphrased material. Every student and scholar of literature writes about the primary texts that they read. But what they write mostly is not summary of what happens in a work of literature, but they write an analysis of it. For this assignment, you will write a kind of essay typically called a close reading. It will require you to analyze a work that we have read this term and support this analysis with only details from the text and your explanation of how the details support your analysis. This kind of analysis focuses on paying attention to how specific details, word choices, and figurative language in a literary text make meaning. You may find that you have to summarize some of the text you are writing about in order to clearly state the details that you are using to support your claims, but an essay that simply summarizes the text will not earn a passing grade.
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