N this activity, you will choose a story or work of fiction that you have previously read and are familiar with. This activity will allow you to deeply analyze and explore how complex characters within the text develop over the course of the text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme. You will first use the provided graphic organizers, by either recreating them or copying and pasting them, to explore these ideas of character development (examining three different characters) throughout the text of your choice. Then, you will either create a Power Point style presentation or compose a one page summary to present and reflect upon your thoughts regarding the characterization and character development present in the text. Your grade will be based on the rubric below. Please look it over before beginning your assignment.

Once you are ready to begin, please follow these steps:

Choose a text that you have read prior to this activity.
Recreate and fill out all graphic organizers provided exploring one main character and two secondary characters. Use complete sentences and proper punctuation.
Use the information that is supplied in the graphic organizers to either write a one page summary or create a Power Point style slide show analyzing how you felt the author developed complex characters throughout the text, how they interacted with other characters, and how these characters impacted the plot or theme.

i have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

i do not think they will sing to me

i believe it is d.) previous creature

with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.