1. The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Direct & Indirect Characterization

2. Assignment:
While reading Five People, your job is to find quotes that tell and show us important information about each of the five people Eddie meets in heaven.
If you haven’t done so already, it’s probably a good idea to start marking these quotes in your book using post-it notes—as you come across them in your reading.

3. Characterization
We can learn the following about a character through the information provided in the text:
Physical traits
Mental, emotional, and moral traits

4. Direct Characterization
The narrator (or sometimes another character) tells us what a person is like
Be wary of information from characters—make sure that they are not lying because they are biased toward the person they’re telling us about

5. Indirect Characterization
Requires the reader to look for clues that reveal a character’s traits and motivations
To fully understand a character and a story, we should look at
What a character says
What a character does
What a character thinks
What others say or think about the characters and how they react to them