The Instrument of Research

Such as the novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, 4 Mohsin Hamid describes about the main male character Princeton, he was an attractive and smart man in his novel. Characteristic is the way in which writer develops characters and reveals those characters’ trait to readers. The names of characters are often quite important for story because the author may develop characters through their actions, their physical appearances, their speech and gestures and expressions, and their names. Character my also be classified as round or dynamic and flat or static character. It means that round character tends to be dynamic, while flat character tends to be static. The developing of the major character may be round; sometime the point of story may depend on the characters’ abilities to change. Minor characters are often static, and their growth is not usually relevant to the development of the story. The readers may be able to develop a character through the character’s dialogue; responses to conflict that arise in the plot, revelatory and thought. A dynamic or round character is mayor character in a work of fiction that encounters conflict and is changed by it. Dynamic characters tend to be more fully developed and described that flat, or static, character. 5 Round character is character that is complex and realistic; they represent a depth of personality which is imitative of life. They frequently possess both good and bad traits, and they may react unexpectedly or become entangled in their own interior conflicts. 6 4 Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist Florida: Harcourt, 2007, P.8 5 http:fictionwriting.about.comodglossarygdynamic.htm accessed on June 6, 2009 6 http:en.wikipedia.orgwikifictional_characterNames_of_characters accessed on June 6, 2009 So, these characters have been fully developed by an author, physically, mentally, and emotionally. A round character is usually a main character that develops over the course of the story. A flat character is a character that has hardly any development. Example of round characters from various genres include Frodo Baggins of the Lord of the Rings, Arthur Dent of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Professor Snape from Harry Potter and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Flat character is character that is not very complex and do not change in surprising ways, but they must be careful not to late terms like flat and round or mayor and minor turn into value judgment. Because flat characters are less complex than round ones. 7 Supporting characters are generally flat, as most minor roles do not require a great deal of complexity. In addition, experimental literature and postmodern fiction often intentionally use flat characters, even as protagonist. The readers will also learn about the characteristic of characters. A character may be humankind, an alien, an animal, a god, an artificial intelligence or an occasionally inanimate object.

B. Character

The term character applies to any individual in a literary work. The characters in fiction are customarily described by their relationships to the plot of a story; by the degree of development that are given by the author. The story and plays a part in the action within the story-teller, but also a story for any narrator to tell In addition to 7 Jerome Beaty, et al., The Norton Introduction To Literature New York: W.W Norton and Company, 1973, P.103