Character Development  

​Character development is a very important part of writing a narrative. The characters that you will introduce in your narrative will be the central part of your writing, for your reader will be going on the journey of their development. As you work on the characters for your narrative remember that your reader knows nothing about them and that you have to tell your reader who your characters are. Lets look at an example of the Dursley family:

"Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she spent so much time craning over garden fences, spying on the neighbors. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere" (pgs. 1-2).

​J.K. Rowling gives her readers a description of the physical features, jobs, and personalities of her characters. She does not start in the middle of the story, for that would confuse the reader. When thinking of the characters that you will be using in your narrative decide how you want to introduce them to your reader. For your narrative remember that your characters will evolve from the beginning of the story and learn some kind of lesson by the end.

​Watch the video at the top of the page to see some of the different types of characters you might want to have in your narrative. After watching the video click on the comment bubble at the bottom of the page and write a short paragraph about what kind of main character you want to have for your narrative and what lesson or obstacle they will learn or over come in your narrative.