Character Analysis Essay

Choose Oryx, Crake, Snowman or Jimmy (can combine Snowman and Jimmy or deal with them separately) and write a clear and concise character analysis using the following as your outline. You are to write an essay of no less than 500 words analyzing your character.

Introduction
Grabber: Use a quote, anecdote, interesting fact, etc. to hook the readers attention. Transition: After grabbing the readers attention, transition to the point of your essay (thesis statement). Use this space to provide some context to the work of literature (the time period or environment in which it was published) and to include the title and author. Thesis Statement: Answer the question you have chosen by identifying the topic, suggesting your opinion, and providing the reasons you will elaborate on in your essay. John Smith is a character who (1) adjusts to life in a new environment, (2) overcomes hardship and misfortune, (3) inspires or leads others, (4) changes as a result of a particular event, when he is taken from his home, sent to a work camp, and forced to create an uprising against his abusive captors.

Body Paragraph 1 (This paragraph should be used to describe your character.)

Topic Sentence: Suggest to the reader that this paragraph will be a description of your character. John Smith is a really interesting and dynamic character. Specific Detail 1: Describe your character using specific details and quotes from the text. Explain what these details reveal about your character. Specific Detail 2 and Specific Detail 3 same as above. Clincher: Wrap up your description and transition to the next paragraph. DO NOT just list aspects of character

Body Paragraph 2 (This paragraph should be used to explain how your character
(1) adjusts to life in a new environment, (2) overcomes hardship and misfortune, (3) inspires or leads others, (4) changes as a result of a particular event.) Topic Sentence: Suggest to the reader that this paragraph will be a description of your character experience or actions related to the prompt. John Smith is forced to face many challenges and obstacles throughout the story. Specific Detail 1: Describe an aspect related to your characters experience or action using specific details and quotes from the text. Explain what these details reveal about your character experience. Specific Detail 2: same as above Clincher: Wrap up your description and transition to the next paragraph.

Body Paragraph 3 (This paragraph should be used to describe what changes your
character has undergone as a result of their experiences/action. This paragraph should also be used to address what lessons or themes can be taken away your characters experiences and changes.) Specific Detail 1: Describe what changes can be seen as a result of your characters

experience or action using specific details and quotes from the text. Explain what these details reveal about your character having gone through their experiences. Specific Detail 2 and Specific Detail 3: Using specific details and quotes from the text, describe what lessons or themes can be seen through the changes your character undergoes as a result of their experiences or actions. Explain why these lessons are important to the overall work. Clincher: Wrap up your discussion on the works major themes and transition to the concluding paragraph.

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Conclusion
What your conclusion should do: Answer the question "So What?" Show your readers why this paper was important. Show them that your paper was meaningful and useful. Synthesize, don't summarize Don't simply repeat things that were in your paper. They have read it. Show them how the points you made and the support and examples you used were not random, but fit together. Redirect your readers ive your reader something to thin! about, perhaps a way to use your paper in the "real" world. #f your introduction went from general to specific, ma!e your conclusion go from specific to general. Thin! globally. Create a new meaning $ou don't have to give new information to create a new meaning. %y demonstrating how your ideas wor! together, you can create a new picture. &ften the sum of the paper is worth more than its parts.

Strategies for conclusions: e. Echoing the introduction: 'choing your introduction can be a good strategy if it is meant to bring the reader full(circle. #f you begin by describing a scenario, you can end with the same scenario as proof that your essay was helpful in creating a new understanding. f. Cha enging the reader: %y issuing a challenge to your readers, you are helping them to redirect the information in the paper, and they may apply it to their own lives. g. !oo"ing to the #uture: )oo!ing to the future can emphasi*e the importance of your paper or redirect the readers' thought process. #t may help them apply the new information to their lives or see things more globally. h. $osing questions: +osing ,uestions, either to your readers or in general, may help your readers gain a new perspective on the topic, which they may not have held before reading your conclusion. #t may also bring your main ideas together to create a new meaning.

Remember:
Avoid statements such as, In this essay I will Do not use personal pronouns such as I, me, we, etc. Do not use contractions, such as cant, wont, shouldnt, etc. Avoid vague or improvable statements, such as I like my character because he is awesome.