The Nature and Types of Character in Fiction Parlindungan Pardede parlpard2010@gmail.com The Nature of Characters Characters are possibly the most important elements of literary works, including a short story. They are the elements that create and push the plot forward by performing the actions and speaking the dialogues to move the story along the plot line. It is through the characters’ interaction with their environment and how they view their environment that readers can experience the world created in a fiction. N o plot would be a story without characters to perform the action and dialogues. In a fiction, characters are anything representing people. Characters are not always people. They can be animals, plants, or other creatures and things. Yet, whatever they are, they represent persons. They can act, behave, and talk like person. In Boccaro’s A Long walk Home , the characters are Jackson and his father. In Aesop’s The Lion and the Mouse ...
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