The Sentimentality of William Tavener(Character and Characterization)

Gigih Kharisma VirgiaDessy Natali

Anang AndiantoBassilius Togi Kharisma Putra

Character & Characterization

a) Degree of Role (main/central character and peripheral characters)

• Main/Central Characters: are the characters considered as the most important of the story in the novel.• Peripheral Characters: are the characters of less importance than the main characters. The peripheral

caracters are shown just once or a few times in the story.

b) The Function of the Performance (protagonist, antagonist and companion)

• Protagonist: is the very central character or the leading actor (actress). The protagonist is usually the the hero or the heroine that plays an important role in the story.

• Antagonist: The antagonist in a novel is usually refers to the enemy of the protagonist.• Companion: The companion is a partner of the protagonist in persuing the duty, career, struggle, or inspirartion.

c) Based on Characterization (simple/flat characters and complex/round characters)

• Simple/Flat Characters: A character in the novel is said to be flat when he/she has unchanging characteristic from the bigining to the end of the story.

• Complex/Round Characters: the characters that express and have some posibility of the life side, personality, and self identity.

d) Based on the Development of the Characters (static and developing characters)

• Static: Static characters are characters that do not experience a personality alteration and or development as effect of events. Static characters have constant and undeveloped personality.

• Developing/Dinamic: Dynamic characters are characters that experience a developmental alteration from the start, middle to the end of the story, appropriate with the demand of the whole story’s unity.

Types of Characterization

Direct

• When writter directly tells the reader what the character is like.

Indirect

• When the writter use indirect characterization, they show their character in action giving reders the chance to decide for themselves what a character is like.• Indirect characterization can be analyze from:

• Appearance• Action• Words• Thought• Relation with other

The Sentimentality of William Tavener Synopsis & Plot

William and Hester, live in McPherson County. One day, Hester manages to talk her husband into letting their children go to the circus after he remembers going to one; they realize they were both there but only found out just now, supposedly. This leads them to reminisce about their past in Virginia, which they haven't done for years, they were too concerned with budgeting their money and getting their work done using their children. William then goes to bed and when the children come home she gives them the money that he gave her for them to go to the circus and tells them to be careful on their way and not to wake their father going to bed.

Plot• Exposition : “It takes a strong woman to make any sort of success of living in the West, and Hester

undoubtedly was that. When people spoke of William Tavener as the most prosperous farmer in McPherson County,...”

• Complication : “When supper was but half over little Billy, the youngest, had suddenly pushed back his plate and slipped away from the table, manfully trying to swallow a sob.... “

• Climax : “She was not expecting anything from William yet, and she was fairly startled when he said gravely, in much the same tone in which he announced the hymns in prayer meeting: "No, there was only one camel. The other was a dromedary.“ She peered around the lamp and looked at him keenly. "Why, William, how come you to know?“ William folded his paper and answered with some hesitation, "I was there, too."

• Falling Action : “Since the children had begun growing up, her conversation with her husband had been almost wholly confined to questions of economy and expense. Their relationship had become purely a business one, like that between landlord and tenant. In her desire to indulge her boys she had unconsciously assumed a defensive and almost hostile attitude towards her husband....”

• Resolution : “"I'll be up early to get your breakfast, boys. Your father says you can go to the show." As she handed the money to the eldest, she felt a sudden throb of allegiance to her husband and said sharply, "And you be careful of that, an' don't waste it. Your father works hard for his money." The boys looked at each other in astonishment and felt that they had lost a powerful ally. “

Character & Characterization

Character Degree of Role (Main or Peripheral)

Function of the Performance (Protagonist,antagonist, companion)

Characterization (Simple or Round)

Development of the Character (Static or Developing)

William Tavener

Main Antagonist Round Developing

Hester Perkins

Main Protagonist Round Developing

The Sentimentality of William TavenerCharacter & Characterization

Character: William Tavener

• Characterictic: Grasping, Determined, Ambitious, Have high Self-esteem, Quite Man, Stuborn, Strict, Love his family.• Characterization:

• He was a hard man towards his neighbors, and even towards his sons; grasping, determined and ambitious. • ”It would have been quite impossible for one man, within the limited sphere of human action, to follow all Hester's advice, but in the end William usually acted upon some of

her suggestions. “,• “But William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.”, “that only a quiet man like William could ever

have lived with Hester Perkins. Secretly, William was rather proud of his wife's "gift of speech," and of the fact that she could talk in prayer meeting as fluently as a man.”,• "I reckon I shouldn't 'a gone," he said slowly, "but boys will do foolish things.”• ”... Your father was stricter with you than you are with your boys." “,• “"Tell the boys not to stay late, an' not to drive the horses hard," he said quietly, and went off to bed. “

Hester Perkins

Character: Hester Perkins (Hester Tavener)

• Characteristic: Talkative, Imperatrix, Understanding, Smart, Thinker, Loving, Appriciate Things from People• Characteristization:

• “It takes a strong woman to makeany sort of successof living in west and Hester undoubtedly was that... She was an executive woman, quick of tongue and something of an imeratrix. The only reason her husband didn’t consult her about his business was that she didnt wait to be consulted.”,

• “Hester blew out the lamp and sat still in the dark a long time. She left the bill lying on the table where William had placed it. She had a painful sense of having missed something, or lost something; she felt that somehow the years had cheated her. “,

• “She went back to the bed room and spread the net over William's head. Then she sat down by the bed and listened to his deep, regular breathing until she heard the boys returning. She went out to meet them and warn them not to waken their father. “

• “. One of the boys had brought it all the way from Virginia, packed in a tin pail, since Hester would not risk shipping so precious an ornament by freight.”

Minor Character

Billy Tavener

• “. When supper was but half over little Billy, the youngest, had suddenly pushed back his plate and slipped away from the table, manfully trying to swallow a sob.”

Tavener’s older son

• “As she handed the money to the eldest, she felt a sudden throb of allegiance to her husband and said sharply, "And you be careful of that, an' don't waste it. Your father works hard for his money." The boys looked at each other in astonishment and felt that they had lost a powerful ally. “

Jim Howley’s boy

• “”Oh, I know Jim Howley's boys get drunk an' carry on when they go, but our boys ain't that sort, an' you know it, William.””

Hester’s sister

• “Hester went into the parlor and took the piece of mosquito net from the basket of wax apples and pears that her sister had made before she died. “

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