As you know, characterization is defined as the way in which an author conveys information about their characters. You can tell how close an author feels to certain characters and personalities by how he/she portrays that character in his/her work.
Characterization can be direct, as when an author tells readers what a character is like or indirect, as when an author shows what a character is like by portraying his or her actions, speech, or thoughts. Descriptions of a character's appearance, behavior, interests, way of speaking, and other mannerisms are all part of characterization. For stories written in the first-person point of view, the narrator's voice, or way of telling the story, is essential to his or her characterization.
This is a critical part of making a story compelling. In order to interest and move readers, characters need to seem real. Authors achieve this by providing details that make characters individual and particular. Good characterization gives readers a strong sense of characters' personalities and complexities; it makes characters vivid, alive and believable.
The first part of To Kill A Mockingbird is dedicated to building the characters and their complex relationships. In the first three chapters, we get a great introduction to Macomb and the Finch family. What can we learn about these characters based on the elements of characterization?
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