Wednesday class 2-1-12

Class today was more on character development. We went into further discussion of the Maslow Hierarchy and how when we are below existing, we are more focused on ourselves. That being said, we can still strive to help others and by doing so we are also more focused on others and our mind and spirit. We hope to aspire and are more giving.

The opposite of that is being more in tune with our animalistic side and we are lazy and self-seeking.  Jenkins said it is The Body v. The Soul. The soul being more in tune with our spiritual side and the Body the animalistic side.

We then went on to discuss characters v. characterization. Characterization is something we want to avoid when developing and writing about characters. It’s just the exterior shell of a character, characterization, and it’s a cliché we want to avoid.

Characters though are revealed under pressure. We then went on to discuss a very sad scenario where two characters are put under pressure when trying to decide which special needs kids to save from a burning school bus, on a bridge.  And after making assumptions before and seeing how some of them are untrue because of it just being a characterization, we really see who the characters are when put under pressure. Very interesting.