characters

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to understanding Shakespeare, focusing on the characters who appear in the tragedy "Macbeth," including including Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, the Macduffs, and the witches.

Explores how African-American women have been portrayed in the writings of James Baldwin, discussing how his development of female characters has progressed throughout his thirty-year career.

Explores the elements of Roald Dahl's characters through interviews with the author, readings from his books, animated scenes from his plots, and captioned demonstrations of his various writing devices. Examines Dahl's four rules of writing: make your readers laugh, make your readers squirm, enthrall your readers, and excite your readers.

Explains how Roald Dahl created interesting children's characters through the use of exaggeration, metaphors, and similies. Also explores the characteristics of good and evil figures in children's books. Includes interviews with Roald Dahl, readings from his books, animated scenes from his plots, and captioned demonstrations of his various writing devices.

Presents a meditation on the life and work of the iconic literary figure, analyzing fifteen of his best-known novels to illustrate Vonnegut's engagement with the "American Dream" in its various incarnations as well as his outrage at the ethos of "survival of the fittest" mentalities.

Explains how Roald Dahl created characters through the use of exaggeration, metaphors, and similies. Also explores the characteristics of the good and evil figures in his children's books, and introduces the man who inspired the Big Friendly Giant in the BFG.

Facts about the Sackett novels that includes real and fictional characters, geography, and historical eras.