30: On Characters
" To me, characters are at the heart of great literature." -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni A great story is often driven by characters who take you into their world and make you experience their narrative as if you were there. When characters have agency and control over their choices and actions, they immediately leap off the page and elevate this element of storytelling. Notable characters allow their readers to connect with them emotionally through their common human experiences, or simply with who they are. The hallmark of a great character is when they become memorable to you, the reader. As we learn about stories in Kinder 2, we discovered what a character is and their important role in a story. Through a simple puppet show, the children learned that characters are the movers within in the story. We learned that characters can be: People, like David from David Goes to School Animals, like the owl from Lacy Walker Nonstop Talker Creatures, like The Lorax or Object