Reader’s Journal: Character

 Reader’s Journal: Character

The purpose of the Reader’s Journal is to provide you with a place to explore ideas, discuss reading, and ask questions about the texts you read for this course. The reader’s journal will ask you to reflect on the readings for the week with questions as prompts, but your response does not need to be in essay format. If it makes more sense to provide a bulleted list or outline, please do so. The language style in the reader’s journal can be more informal than your other writing assignments, but please be sure to use academic terms and ideas from the reading to support your ideas. When referring to the “events of the story”, call it “plot” so as to familiarize yourself with the academic vocabulary of literature. 

Assignment Instructions

Read the section on Character (opens in new window) and the story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in Reading and Writing about Literature, Chapter 5 "Writing about Stories - Stories for Analysis."

As you read the story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” reflect on how Gilman develops the two main characters in the story. In your written response:

Briefly describe each character. What are the main physical and personality characteristics of each character?

Assign the label “static” or “dynamic”, and “round” or “flat” to each character. Provide a rationale where you describe your reasoning for this label.

How does your understanding of the main female character change as the story progresses? Give two examples of the descriptions of her character from the story to demonstrate the shift.

Requirements

Word Count: 600 - 900

APA Formatted Reference page (if needed)