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This document provides guidance and prompts for analyzing character traits in a novel. It instructs the reader to revise their thinking to find evidence to support different character traits, acknowledge both likeable and less likeable parts of a character, and determine which traits have the biggest influence on the plot. It also contains prompts for analyzing how characters are shaped by different settings and pressures over time, how group dynamics can influence places, and how characters' troubles can become motifs in the story. The overall goal is to help the reader identify the theme of the novel.

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Book Title & Picture of Cover: Author Name Your Name

This document provides guidance and prompts for analyzing character traits in a novel. It instructs the reader to revise their thinking to find evidence to support different character traits, acknowledge both likeable and less likeable parts of a character, and determine which traits have the biggest influence on the plot. It also contains prompts for analyzing how characters are shaped by different settings and pressures over time, how group dynamics can influence places, and how characters' troubles can become motifs in the story. The overall goal is to help the reader identify the theme of the novel.

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Book title & picture of cover

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Investigating Multiple Character Traits
Revise Your Thinking to Accumulate Evidence
Example: Evidence:

Is Cassie stubborn ● Doesn’t want to


PROUD or accept the old
determined? book using racist
language
● Tells the history of
land ownership
Acknowledge the Parts of Your Character that are Less Likeable

Stubborn- Cassie won’t Three more examples


accept the book with evidence

Impulsive- Cassie tells


Jim Lee Barnett that his
treatment of them in the
store is not fair.

Vengeful- She wants


Uncle Hammer to go after
Mr. Simms after forcing
her off the sidewalk
Which Character Traits Matter More Than Others
Second “heaviest”/most The “heaviest”/most
influential trait. influential trait. Provide
the trait that influences
the plot the most and
explain WHY and
PROVIDE TEXTUAL
EVIDENCE (quote from
the book).
Lift Your Level of Writing About Your Reading
Choose one:

-Jot down things you can’t hold in your head

-Record your most interesting thought

-Decide what kind of writing best suits your thinking


Considering the Pressures on Your Character
Characters Being Shaped by Setting
Date and thinking Date and thinking
about setting about setting

Note at least two places in your book where the setting seems particularly significant.
Precise Language Author Uses to Describe Setting
Use the sentence starters below (in speaker notes) to show how the author
describes that setting and how that adds to the story.
Characters Being Torn by Competing Pressures (including pressures of a
place)

INSIDE OUTSIDE
Settings Change Over Time (not just physically, but psychologically)
Characters Acting as a Group Wield Enormous
Influence
How group dynamics (or a powerful individual) influence a place in your book
with textual evidence
Settings Change in Time (often bringing in backstory to develop character)

1 2 3 4 5

5
Characters’ Troubles (Conflicts) Become Motifs in your Story

Trouble #1 Trouble #2 Trouble #3 Trouble #4

List of possible motifs in the book:


Theme of Novel
What is your novel’s theme? Answer in a fully developed paragraph with textual
evidence and EXPLAIN HOW this is evidence to support the theme.

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