e_set2.txt Driver File Contents (ASManager2_6.zip)

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Creating Character through Setting 2

In these files you are learning about and practicing the use of six basic strategies for developing character. They are:

 1) Description
 2) Dialogue
 3) Action
 4) Reactions of other characters
 5) Setting
 6) Narrative

This is the second file focusing on developing characters through setting.

This file is different from an earlier one you may have worked with. That file developed an understanding of character by describing the setting that the characters chose to surround themselves with. In this file, we will use a character's reaction to a setting. We can understand a lot about characters by the way an author has them react to their surroundings.

Let's start by reading an excerpt from The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter. The boy in this description was captured as a young child and raised by the Indians. He is being returned to his white parents by soldiers. In the passage below, you will read his reaction to the unfamiliar and disturbing surroundings he has been placed in for the night.

That night the boy lay in the alien place provided him and Del. Walls and ceiling had been closed up with some kind of thick white mud. To make it airtight, his white people had covered the dried mud with paper. The only holes in the walls had been blocked off by wooden doors and glass squares.

He felt sealed up as in the grave. He knew now why the English looked so pale. They shut themselves off from the living air. They were like green grass bleached white under a stone or the pallid ghost pipes that grow in the dark woods where no sun reaches. The heart of the whites must be different from the Indian as sheep from the deer. The Indian and deer would wither and die in such confinement, but the white man flourished in the stale sickly air of his house like fleas in his wall and borers in the cabin logs. He could rise refreshed from a suffocating bed of feathers high as a turkey roost off his mother, the Earth. He could even survive that instrument of torture called a bolster, which bent white people from the straightness of the Indian, curving their necks forward like a crane's.

1) What can you understand from the passage about this character's attitude towards the change happening in his life?

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2) Which word in the following pairs best describes the character's personality. Delete the word in each pair that does not describe the character. When you are through you will have a list that describes the character's personality.

Uneasy
Comfortable

Happy
Sad

Resentful
Accepting

Rebellious
Calm


Name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)

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Reverse the Situation

Imagine the same 15-year-old boy was raised in the white frontier settlement and is being sent to live with the Indians against his will. The situation is reversed. Describe his reaction to the unfamiliar Indian dwelling using the same feeling and style as the original description.

Parts of the passage have been typed for you. Wherever you see insert markers, add phrases and sentences of your own composition. You need at least one phrase or sentence for each of the 11 sets of angle brackets. Refer back to the passage above, and write the phrases and sentences as you think Richter might have written them from this opposite view point.

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That night the boy lay in the alien place provided him and Del. Walls and ceiling <  >. It was open to the cold night air <  >. <  >.

He felt exposed as <  >. He knew now why the Indians looked <  >. They never protected themselves from the elements. They were like <  >. The heart of the Indians must be different from the whites as <  >. The white would wither and die in such <  >, but the Indian flourished in the <  >. <  >. <  >.


If you haven't done so already, name and save this file now. (Press ctrl+S, type a name for the file, and press enter.)

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