Characters

· How many characters are involved in the story?

· Who are the main/principal characters?

· Who seem to be the minor characters?

· What can you remember about the characters?

· What are they like?

· What sort of person is each of them?

· What kind of person does N seem to be?

· Which of the characters would you describe as

sympathetic and which is unsympathetic?

· How would you describe N’s character?

· Who is the protagonist/antagonist of the story?

· Who is the villain there?

· How does the author describe the protagonist’s

appearance and character?

· Can you describe any of the characters?

· What do you imagine they look like?

· Could you describe how each of the characters might

be dressed?

· What do we learn about the inner world of this

character?

· What does he enjoy?

· What makes him miserable?

· What does he blame himself for?

· Who is he sorry for?

· Who is he attracted to?

· Could you mention some of his habits?

· What is the relationship between N and his brother?

· What is the difference between the characters of N

and his brother? (How do N and his brother contrast?)

· What is the conflict between N and his brother?

· What do we learn from the story about the principal

character?

· What does the story tell you about N’s character?

(What are some of the things

· we learn about the character of N? Do we learn

anything about the character of N before we actually meet him?)

· What more have you learned of N’s character from this

section of the book?

Writer’s attitude to his characters

· What is the writer’s attitude to his characters?

(What do you think is the writer’s

· opinion of his characters?)

· Does the author like or dislike the characters

described in the passage?

· Do you think the writer likes all the characters?

· How does the author feel about N? (Describe the

writer’s feelings for N.)

· Does he feel sorry for N?

· How does the author show his feelings for his main

characters in the passage?

· Whose side is the athour on? (Who does the author

side with?) How do you know?

· Which character does the author probably want you to

dislike?

Have the characters changed?

· In most novels characters change as the result of

what happens to them in the story.

· Has the protagonist/main character changed in any way since the beginning of the novel?

· How has he changed?

· What is he like at the beginning of the story? At the end

of the story?

· Have the characters in the section you’ve read developed

in any way? How? Give evidence.

· What evidence do you find in these chapters that N has

changed in any way since the beginning of the story?

· In what way, if at all, does the principal character change

in the story?