Character Comparison Essay

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Some stories are better than others because they have quality characters, description, and plot. Quality characters help your reader connect to the story. Description makes them feel involved and like a part of the story. Plot is the glue of any story. These are what make a story good. Having quality characters in your story is a very important thing to your readers. Having quality characters means telling lots of details so that it feels like you truly know the character.
This gives the reader a better connection to the story and makes them more in to it. According to www.aaronshep.com, ”A main character should have at least one flaw or weakness. Perfect characters are not very interesting. They’re also harder to feel something in common with or care about.”(Shepard) Description …show more content…

The website http:// allwritefictionadvice.blogspot.com/2011/05/description-and-why-its-important.html says that
“Description is one of the three key elements in fiction, along with narrative and dialogue, which brings your story to life.”(Humpage) Description is used a lot in stories. It can help describe the
Weaver !2 setting or create imagery. All of the ways that we use description in a story contribute to making it a good story and keeping the reader interested.
Plot gives stories a structure and keeps it flowing. Without a good plot the story would be more choppy, and less smooth and maybe not even make sense. If you didn't have a plot there would be no sense in writing the story, it would make no sense to the reader. William Victor the writer of “What is plot - How to Build a Story from the Beginning to End” would say “It’s the road map that takes your story from point A to point B.”(Victor) This is saying it keeps the story going. Some people might say that having quality characters isn't necessary, however this is not the case. Having quality characters is a very big part of a story and in all of the best stories

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