Characterization Graphic Organizer Characterization is the process by which the author reveals the personality of the character. The author can do this
directly by giving specific details about the character, however, most of the information the reader receives is
indirectly given. The reader must think about what the character says and does. How does the character react to
certain situations and what does that say about them? How does the character treat others? In order to create a
character analysis, you must collect information about the character. Please actively engage in the text by
completing the following organizer.
Character says: How does this make the character sound? Quotes from the text to support your
claim.
Character actions:
How does the character behave? What does Quotes from the text to support your
it say about them?
claim.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Why does the author of exploring the titanic give background information about his youth and education? to show his lifelong love for the ocean

What can the reader infer about the fears and values of the ancient greeks based on this description of the cyclops’s island?