TASKS
Create your Outsiders character poster (like the example on the left). A character will be assigned to you (check schul.cloud). Your character poster consists of four A4 pages. You can download and use the templates or draw the poster on your own.
Please include all 12 categories. Important: Always provide references to page numbers for every single information!
e.g.:
physical appearance: “I have light-brown, almost-red hair and greenish-gray eyes.” (p.1)
personality: empathetic (cf. pp. 1-2)
Templates:
two_bit
steve_randle
soda_pop_curtis
darrel_curtis
dallas_winston
cherry_valance
johnny_cade
THE CATEGORIES OF THE OUTSIDERS CHARACTER POSTER
1. Direct Quotes: Three direct quotations from the story that sum up the character and add to an understanding of the character. These quotes do not necessarily need to be spoken by the character. Possibly, another character says them in regard to your character.
2. Virtues: What are your character’s best qualities?
3. Vices: What are your character’s worst qualities? This can be weaknesses and flaws.
4. Loves / Cares About: This should represent what this character loves most.
5. Thoughts about inner-self / Appears to others: Consider both how your character appears to others on the surface and what you know about the character’s inner-self (what the character really thinks about their own self).
6. Tries to Control: What is an example of how your character tries to seek control.
7. Symbols: What objects can you associate/relate with your character? Colors can also have a symbolic meaning.
8. Goals: What does this character want? What actions do the they take? These actions often create the conflict. How does this character’s goals create the conflict?
9. Best Accomplishment: What is this character’s best achievement? What is their proudest moment?
10. Challenge: What is standing in your character’s way? What is holding them back from achieving their goal? Is this someone? Or a character flaw? An event?
11. Physical Appearance/ Description: What You Notice First. These are defining traits or features about the character. These are aspects that are visually apparent, knowing nothing else about the person. The first thing you see when you look at someone could be their hair, clothes, nose, or figure.
12. Stayed the Same / Changed: Is this character static or dynamic? Are there any changes that this character has “undergone?” Changes are notable in the text are usually within the character. Could be outlook, insight or understanding. Commonly, changes in commitment, in values, allegiance, stature. Not all characters are dynamic. Find evidence of both.
