By David Maillu
Published June 18, 2023
When you have an idea you want to share with people creatively, you find
ways of sharing that idea. Any idea is a living body or form which can be
exploited. The body of that idea can have many sides, some which can be
attractive while others are unattractive parts. If you want to create a
novel to express that idea, therefore, you have to create human
characters, each character to take a different stand in the story Yet, all
those characters that you create in order to help you develop and tell the
story, represent you. They represent you in different dimensions of
expression. This is described as characterization.
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If we go by the previous story of hurried engagement and marriage then the
bad consequences, the first thing you will do would be to create the main
characters. Those are the boyfriend and the girlfriend. The boyfriend will
represent your character and your views about the girlfriend. You are
someone from somewhere with a background. So, what is in that background?
You have got to create important people with whom you live and who must
appear in your story giving it full life as in ordinary living
experiences. Equally so, the girlfriend character will represent her
personality.
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So, how did the two of you meet and what made you get attracted to each
other? You must have met somewhere under certain circumstances. That is, the story must have a strong background in order to cloth is with reality.
Both the boyfriend and the girlfriend have got parents and relatives who,
at one stage or another, might be consulted at one time. So, the story
should include relative characters with personalities. Besides, you create
the environment and location in which the boyfriend and girlfriend first
met. The characterization should include their friends too. Besides, as in
real life, each one of the main characters should have a philosophy of
life.
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