Character Analysis

This typed 2-4 page paper should be double spaced with a 12 point font and 1 inch margins. Please include 6-12 sentences per paragraph and use your best grammar.Choose one character from Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson and create an analysis for the character based on evidence you find in the play.When you cite the Act and Scene numbers of your evidence, please do not use page numbers as you might with a novel. Please use the MLA Drama ciation by using a parenthesis, arabic numeral act, period, lower case arabic numeral for the scene number, and close with a parenthesis. Write in complete sentences using the following questions as prompts. Do not write the questions. 1.What does your character say about himself or herself? Provide evidence using examples from the text by act and scene. 2.What do the other characters say about your character? Provide evidence using examples from the text by act and scene. 3.What are the motives that drive your character? List the things that he or she wants from the other characters in the play. What seems to be the dominant motive for your character? 4.How does your character change during the course of the play? What are the important realizations that your character comes to during the play? What provokes the realizations? Where does the character begin? Where does the character end? 5.What is the history of your character? Put together all the information given by the playwright, your character, and the other characters. 6.What is your character’s relationship to the other significant characters? How does it change? 7.What does your character look like? Find several pictures that show clothes, physicality, or outlook

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