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• Character and Setting

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Character

• Definition the people, animals, or creatures
• Main Characters The most important characters in
  a story
• Minor Character Interacts with main character.
  Has a lesser role in the story
• -The actions of the minor characters, and their
  interactions with the major characters
• - They help the plot move along

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• Dynamic Characters A character who grows
  emotionally, learns a lesson, or changes his or
  her behavior
• Static Character A character who doesnt change

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• Motives Are the emotions, desire, or needs that
  prompt the characters actions
• Traits permanent qualities of the characters
  personality
• The characters reaction the storys conflict
  situation, or other characters also tell you
  about the characters motives and traits

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Characterization

• The techniques writers use to create and develop
  characters
• - Description of physical appearance of the
  character
• - Speech or dialogue
• - What minor characters think or say to the
  main character
• - Direct statements made by author about the
  characters nature

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Setting

• Definition the time and place of the action, may
  include geographic location, historical period
  (past present, future) season, time of day and
  local customs and way of speaking
• Mood atmosphere of a piece and is often
  reflected in the kind of description a writer
  uses. Helped created by the setting
• Tone the writers attitude towards a subject

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Lets Apply it to a story

• Cinderella
• as told by Ms Schroeder

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Once upon a time in a kingdom far far away there
lived a young girl in a cottage on the edge of
town.
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Soon after her mother died her father remarried a
woman that was very pretty but very vain. She had
two daughters of her own.
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As wicked and selfish that they were Cinderella
was as kind and giving. To keep the peace in her
fathers home Cinderella started doing chores for
her new stepmother and her daughters. Over time
Cinderella became a servant in her own home to
her stepmother and stepsisters. Time had passed
and Cinderella had grown into a lovely young
lady.
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One day an invitation to a ball for the prince
came to the house, it said that all eligible
ladies were to attend the ball. The stepsisters
immediately started to plan what they were going
to wear to the ball. Cinderella who was excited
as well asked if she would not also be allowed to
go since the invitation said that all eligible
ladies were to attend. The stepsisters started to
laugh, you go to the ball? What do you think
that the prince would dance with you?
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The stepmother said, darlings she has a point
the invitation does say all eligible ladies are
to attend. Of course she is going to make herself
a new dress because none of the dresses that she
owns are going to be suitable for a ball with the
prince. Of course said Cinderella. And you
would not want to fall behind on your choirs.
Of course, said Cinderella. If and only if
you are able to make a suitable dress and finish
all your choirs will you be able to go to the
ball. Oh thank you said Cinderella and went
off to work on her choirs. She worked hard over
the next week. But no matter how hard she worked
her choirs never seemed to be done. Her dress was
never finished. So on the night of the ball she
watched from her bedroom window as the carriage
took her family to the ball.
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In her backyard her had planted a tree on the day
that her mother died. She had watered the tree
with her many tears till it had become a mighty
tree. She ran out to the tree in the garden and
crying she told the tree about how she was not
being allowed to go to the ball. The wind blew
through the tree and seemed to say you will get
your wish.
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Cinderella looked up and saw in the tree a dress
and shoes were hanging from the tree. Cinderella
ran into the house and changed into the dress.
She went outside of the house and there was a
carriage. When she got the ball she was
immediately noticed by the prince and they danced
all night. At midnight she realized that she had
to get home before her family. So she ran down
the step along the way one of her shoes fell off.
Her family never suspected that the beautiful
girl at the ball was their Cinderella.
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News reached the stepsisters that the Prince was
going around trying on the shoe to all eligible
ladies to see if the shoe fit and he would marry
whom ever the shoe fit.
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He got to Cinderellas house and the two
stepsisters tried on the shoe. When the shoe did
not seem to fit the stepmother took the dinner
knife and cut off her little toe to make it fit.
The Prince took her out to his horse and started
to ride back to the castle when he noticed the
blood dripping out of the shoe. He rode back to
the house and tried the shoe on the other step
sister when the shoe did not fit the stepmother
took a dinner knife and cut off her heel. The
prince was riding back to the castle when her
noticed the blood coming out of the shoe. He rode
back to the house and asked if there were any
other ladies in the house the stepmother said
that there was only Cinderella but she had not
been to the ball so there was no reason in having
her try on the shoe. The prince took one look at
her and knew that she was the girl from the ball.
He placed the shoe on her foot and it was a
prefect fit and no blood.
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They were soon married. At the wedding the
stepsisters were seeing Cinderella off on her
honeymoon when crows came flying down and picked
out their eyes as punishment for being so mean to
Cinderella. Never again were the girls mean to
another living creature.
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As for Cinderella she lived Happily Ever After.
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Characters
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Setting
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Stepmother

• Is she a main character or a minor Character?
• She is a minor Character.
• Is she a dynamic or static character?
• She is a static Character.
• What are her motives?
• To get her daughters to marry the Prince.

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Step Sisters

• Are they main character or a minor Character?
• They are minor Character.
• Is she a dynamic or static character?
• They are dynamic characters.
• What their motives?
• To marry the Prince.

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Father

• Is he a main character or a minor Character?
• He is a minor Character.
• Is he a dynamic or static character?
• She is a static Character.
• Does he have any motives?
• No.

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