Post 1, Youth 0-6, Character Introduction

When you read a book you almost never think about how the characters are introduced, and how that relates to their identities. Although we may never think about this it can be extremely important to our first impressions of the characters. Lets look at how Farmer introduced Maria. "Maria wasn't at all shy about coming up to the window." Maria was introduced as an outgoing, confident little girl, who didn't think twice about asking Matt to play. Throughout the rest of the first part, she continued to support how she was introduced by keeping Matt company, even after she figured out he was a clone. If we look at how Matt was introduced into the book, first as just as cell and then trying to prevent Celia, his caregiver, from leaving. We can make the inferences that firstly, he is a clone, and second he may be on the shy side, and depends on Celia's company. Because he depends on Celia's company we can lead to the conclusion that he is isolated, and does not make human interactions very often. Lastly we will look at how Farmer introduced Celia. "'What's this?' the woman said. 'You're a big boy now, almost six. You know I have to work' She picked him up to move him out of the way." This is where we first hear about Celia, we can assume that she is a strong woman, who works hard, and takes care of Matt. Farmer introduced the characters this way for a reason; there can be many reasons to why she wanted to introduce them this way. The theory I have is that she wanted to introduce them this way to set a standard. So the reader can get an idea of what the characters personality is and how the character will possibly affect the story. If you think about it when you first meet a person you get your first impressions, which is similar to a story. When the character is first introduced that is your first impressions of the character. All in all I think Farmer introduced the characters so we can get the general idea of their role in the story, or their personality.

~Brea