Learning Goal: Recognize that the lesson a character learns can often be stated as a theme.
Often, understanding how a character develops will help the reader understand the theme.
As is written in our red Reader’s Handbook… As you read you’ll want to be aware of the differences between static and dynamic characters. Static characters stay the same throughout the story. They hardly change at all. In contrast, dynamic characters change from beginning to end. They often learn something. That change is something the author expects you as a reader to recognize and interpret. Ask yourself what the author is suggesting by those changes.
Since change may be a real clue to the theme of a novel, describe here one change you see in the main character so far.
1. Find one passage that shows a change in the character.
2. Copy it down.
3. Tell us the page number.
4. Then, explain how this passage shows a change in the character.
O yeah i forgot to add that because she changed she is a dynamic character.
ReplyDeleteOn page 151 Tally said "The sight of the real sunrise amazed her" This shows a change in Tally because the veiw of the sunrise makes her want to stay because its pretty.
ReplyDeleteMaddie W 2nd period
I agree with maddie w. Tally is starting to beleive that the outdoors are prettier than being bhind the walls of prettytown and ugly ville. stephanie b block 2
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ReplyDeletepg. 220
tally is really getting use to the smoke. all the people and even how they look. before she couldn't hardly look at them.
passage;
"aroundthe fire at dinner that night tally told the story of how she'd hidden in the river when the rangers helicopter first appeared. she had everyone wide eyed again. apparantly she had one of the more exciting journeys to the smoke.
On page 228 (Last page of part 2) it says, "With half her mind, Tally was actually glad she'd come and seen all this. She could have lived her whole life in the city and never seen this much of the world." This shows a change because Tally realized that if she had spent all of her life in the city she'd never have seen the beauty of anything else. Tally is a dynamic character because you can see a change in her from the beginning of the book, being that she is slowly getting used to the Smoke and even liking it, and maybe thinking that there are better things than being pretty.
ReplyDelete--Emily F., Block 2
Tally is a dynamic character because at the beggining she is only playing tricks but when she gets to the smoke she becomes more responsible.
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Procrastinators UNITE!!!!!!!... tommorow.
Tally in does not want to betray shay and would not tell about the smoke btu later she changes when she gets a visit from peris and changes and becomes an infiltrator.
ReplyDeleteJessica M. Period one
we think that tally changes in the second half because she is going against her friend shay! and when they first met she seemed like shed never betray her but she does!! how rude right???
ReplyDelete~ ANDI S PERIOD 6 and Christina N block 6 :)
I think the lesson behind the book is that you need to exept who you are and not care what anyone thinks
ReplyDelete-Matthew H. period six
what I don't understand is how did special circumstances find her when she threw her pendant into the fire?
ReplyDelete-Matthew H.
p.s. justin beiber smells!!!!!!!!
"Everything's so big," Tally murmured. "That's what you can never tell from the inside," Shay said. "How small the city is. How small they have to make everyone to keep them trapped there." This passage was on page 208. As Tally was observing the beautiful environment she noticed how much open land was around her. She is starting to like the fact of open land and is starting to change her thinking of her city and the operation.
ReplyDeleteHanna M., 6th Period