Blog post 9

The last class period that we had in Comm-St 351 was over characterization and characters. Characterization is different from characters in general. Characterization is what is seen and understood about a character from the surface, many might be clichés or first level characters, there also may be many writers working on characterization. Characters on the other hand are more complex and deep. Characters show there true self’s under pressure; an example of this that was used in class is Rocky from the movie Rocky. We see Rocky’s character come out under pressure during his last round. In class today we also did some characterizations of two people one a woman in a station wagon with cleaning supplies and the other a well to do man driving a porche. For the woman we found out that she was a Hispanic illegal immigrant and right away the class came up with some pretty good comments about her being a hard working mother. While the man had received many negative statements about him being narcissistic and full of him. I think these characterizations where made because nobody wanted to be politically incorrect. It’s funny because at first when I heard that she was wearing a bandana and had cleaning supplies I thought that she was a meth producer and I’m Hispanic, but as more information about her started to unravel I figured she was a worker who meant no harm. That was Wednesday’s class.