When reading a novel or a short story, the question on why the author creates particular characters will come to mind. There can be significant traits the character possesses that the reader should recognize automatically throughout the story. In other words, characters in a story are one of the main key points that help a reader fully understand the context that the author has written about. Characteristics throughout a story assist with painting the image inside the readers head on the time, surrounding, and appearance of a character. In the Necklace, by Guy De Maupassant character development is illustrated.
Character development is an essential element that authors use throughout their stories to make the character become more realistic to their audience. There are several factors that make up the development of a character such as action, setting, and descriptions. Having these factors of character development identified while reading a story can make the text become more realistic to the readers eyes. A characters description is very important when developing a story. For an example, in the short story Sweat by Zora Neal Hurston, the protagonist Delia physical appearance is greatly expresses within the story. Hurston describes Delia as a southern African American washer woman who is so skinny that her legs resemble a chicken’s, and is physically drain from all the hard work she does around her house. Delia physical appearance is not beautiful, because she endures physical beatings from her cheating husband. This evidence of descriptions in the story helps with visualizing an image inside the reader mind of how Delia looks. Having a setting in a story tells the audience where the location is taking place and also the time period the story is set on. In the movie Titanic, a person can tell the setting is relating back to a past time by the way the character