1. The Sentimentality of William Tavener
(Character and Characterization)
Gigih Kharisma Virgia
Dessy Natali
Anang Andianto
Bassilius Togi Kharisma Putra
2. Character & Characterization
a) Degree of Role (main/central character and peripheral characters)
• Main/Central Characters: are the characters considered as the most important of the
story in the novel.
• Peripheral Characters: are the characters of less importance than the main characters.
The peripheral caracters are shown just once or a few times in the story.
b) The Function of the Performance (protagonist, antagonist and
companion)
• Protagonist: is the very central character or the leading actor (actress). The protagonist
is usually the the hero or the heroine that plays an important role in the story.
• Antagonist: The antagonist in a novel is usually refers to the enemy of the protagonist.
• Companion: The companion is a partner of the protagonist in persuing the
duty, career, struggle, or inspirartion.
3. c) Based on Characterization (simple/flat characters and
complex/round characters)
• Simple/Flat Characters: A character in the novel is said to be flat when
he/she has unchanging characteristic from the bigining to the end of the
story.
• Complex/Round Characters: the characters that express and have some
posibility of the life side, personality, and self identity.
d) Based on the Development of the Characters (static and
developing characters)
• Static: Static characters are characters that do not experience a
personality alteration and or development as effect of events. Static
characters have constant and undeveloped personality.
• Developing/Dinamic: Dynamic characters are characters that experience
a developmental alteration from the start, middle to the end of the story,
appropriate with the demand of the whole story’s unity.
4. Types of Characterization
Direct
• When writter directly tells the reader what the character is like.
Indirect
• When the writter use indirect characterization, they show their character in
action giving reders the chance to decide for themselves what a character is
like.
• Indirect characterization can be analyze from:
• Appearance
• Action
• Words
• Thought
• Relation with other
5. The Sentimentality of William Tavener
Synopsis & Plot
William and Hester, live in McPherson County. One day, Hester manages
to talk her husband into letting their children go to the circus after he
remembers going to one; they realize they were both there but only found
out just now, supposedly. This leads them to reminisce about their past in
Virginia, which they haven't done for years, they were too concerned with
budgeting their money and getting their work done using their children.
William then goes to bed and when the children come home she gives them
the money that he gave her for them to go to the circus and tells them to be
careful on their way and not to wake their father going to bed.
6. Plot
• Exposition : “It takes a strong woman to make any sort of success of living in the West, and
Hester undoubtedly was that. When people spoke of William Tavener as the most prosperous farmer in
McPherson County,...”
• Complication : “When supper was but half over little Billy, the youngest, had suddenly pushed back
his plate and slipped away from the table, manfully trying to swallow a sob.... “
• Climax : “She was not expecting anything from William yet, and she was fairly startled when
he said gravely, in much the same tone in which he announced the hymns in prayer meeting: "No, there
was only one camel. The other was a dromedary.“ She peered around the lamp and looked at him keenly.
"Why, William, how come you to know?“ William folded his paper and answered with some hesitation, "I
was there, too."
• Falling Action : “Since the children had begun growing up, her conversation with her husband had
been almost wholly confined to questions of economy and expense. Their relationship had become purely
a business one, like that between landlord and tenant. In her desire to indulge her boys she had
unconsciously assumed a defensive and almost hostile attitude towards her husband....”
• Resolution : “"I'll be up early to get your breakfast, boys. Your father says you can go to the
show." As she handed the money to the eldest, she felt a sudden throb of allegiance to her husband and
said sharply, "And you be careful of that, an' don't waste it. Your father works hard for his money." The
boys looked at each other in astonishment and felt that they had lost a powerful ally. “
7. Character & Characterization
Character Degree of Role Function of the Characterizatio Development
(Main or Performance n (Simple or of the
Peripheral) (Protagonist,an Round) Character
tagonist, (Static or
companion) Developing)
William Main Antagonist Round Developing
Tavener
Hester Main Protagonist Round Developing
Perkins
8. The Sentimentality of William Tavener
Character & Characterization
Character: William Tavener
• Characterictic: Grasping, Determined, Ambitious, Have high Self-esteem, Quite Man,
Stuborn, Strict, Love his family.
• Characterization:
• He was a hard man towards his neighbors, and even towards his sons; grasping,
determined and ambitious.
• ”It would have been quite impossible for one man, within the limited sphere of human
action, to follow all Hester's advice, but in the end William usually acted upon some of her
suggestions. “,
• “But William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he
never looked for a storm until it broke.”, “that only a quiet man like William could ever
have lived with Hester Perkins. Secretly, William was rather proud of his wife's "gift of
speech," and of the fact that she could talk in prayer meeting as fluently as a man.”,
• "I reckon I shouldn't 'a gone," he said slowly, "but boys will do foolish things.”
• ”... Your father was stricter with you than you are with your boys." “,
• “"Tell the boys not to stay late, an' not to drive the horses hard," he said quietly, and went
off to bed. “
9. Hester Perkins
Character: Hester Perkins (Hester Tavener)
• Characteristic: Talkative, Imperatrix, Understanding, Smart, Thinker, Loving, Appriciate Things
from People
• Characteristization:
• “It takes a strong woman to makeany sort of successof living in west and Hester
undoubtedly was that... She was an executive woman, quick of tongue and something of
an imeratrix. The only reason her husband didn’t consult her about his business was that
she didnt wait to be consulted.”,
• “Hester blew out the lamp and sat still in the dark a long time. She left the bill lying on the
table where William had placed it. She had a painful sense of having missed something, or
lost something; she felt that somehow the years had cheated her. “,
• “She went back to the bed room and spread the net over William's head. Then she sat
down by the bed and listened to his deep, regular breathing until she heard the boys
returning. She went out to meet them and warn them not to waken their father. “
• “. One of the boys had brought it all the way from Virginia, packed in a tin pail, since
Hester would not risk shipping so precious an ornament by freight.”
10. Minor Character
Billy Tavener
• “. When supper was but half over little Billy, the youngest, had suddenly pushed back his
plate and slipped away from the table, manfully trying to swallow a sob.”
Tavener’s older son
• “As she handed the money to the eldest, she felt a sudden throb of allegiance to her
husband and said sharply, "And you be careful of that, an' don't waste it. Your father works
hard for his money." The boys looked at each other in astonishment and felt that they had
lost a powerful ally. “
Jim Howley’s boy
• “”Oh, I know Jim Howley's boys get drunk an' carry on when they go, but our boys ain't that
sort, an' you know it, William.””
Hester’s sister
• “Hester went into the parlor and took the piece of mosquito net from the basket of wax
apples and pears that her sister had made before she died. “
