analysing a novel

1. NOVEL
METHOD OF CHARACTERIZATION IN A NOVEL

2.  1. Physical Description
 • The most common way of describing a
 character
 • Identifies anything physical about the
 Character in the novel
 • this could Includes his or her height, skin, hair and eye
 colour, short/tall, skinny/fat, wear
 glasses?, how he/she walks/talks and everything about him or her
 anything physical characteristic that surrender the character

3.  2. Name Analysis
 • Analysing a character’s name
 is looking more closely to its
 meaning (if there is one) and
 describing it
 • Not all characters have a
 name with significance to the
 story
 • A lot of times though, authors
 carefully choose a character’s
 name to represent something
 about the character and/or his or her behaviour

4. ANALYSING A LIRETATURE

5. SETTING
 When we look at the setting ,we look for certain description that tells the readers
about the setting
 We look for when and where the story was told
 The place and the time frame and the period
 Was it the past, present or is it still coming

6.  Setting
 When Did the story happened ? This include the year or period
 Present, past or future
 How do we know ?
 Where is the story taking place ?
 The place
 How do we know?
 Are the setting relevant to the theme

7.  Characters
 Protagonist – the main character whose telling the story and who undergoes
complex challenges and overcome them
 Antagonist – an important character that opposes the main character and
maybe the character is a manner character or a dynamic
 Appearance and personalities and characteristics of the characters, how the
character appears
 Can you connect it to the theme?

8.  Plot
 Be able to read the story and get an understanding What the story is about.
 The main events that are happening in the story .
 The rising events
 The climax ,where the conflict might be in high and solutions are needed to calm
down the situation
 Can you see a connection to the theme?

9.  Narrator
 The “person” whom is telling the story.
 Could be a character in the novel or someone from
 the outside.
 First, could be identified by ( “I", We, me)
 second could be identified by (“YOU”)
 or third person narrator could be seen by “him or her or they”
 Omniscient narrator – all-knowing

10. SYMBOLS IN A NOVEL
 A symbol is a simple thing or sign
 that can be recognised by everybody.
 However, not only in literature, a
 symbol always bares a deeper
 meaning or a big idea.
 It could prove a literal meaning into a figurative meaning in the story

11.  An image is supposed to appeal to the
 reader‘s imagination. It is intended to
 bring a new feeling or perception to
 an object

12.  A metaphor links seemingly unlike
 things with one another in the form of an
 implicit comparison.
 Comparison between two things and compare it with another that maybe is not
the same
 A simile links two distinctly different
 things with one another in the form of an
 explicit comparison through the words
 like or as.

13.  Personification
 Here you characters the human nature to non human nature and give it to human
characteristic
 E.g. the cow can give birth to a human being
 This is personification because the cow could not give birth to a babe .

14. REFERENCE LIST
• Joeper,K. (2012) Symbol I a novel. Available from slide share at
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