Author in Kobe, Japan 2007. In life as in fiction there are two types of characters. A round character is the first type. A round character is usually the hero, the protagonists, and is the most likeable character with many admirable qualities. The round character in the simplest definition of it is that it is someone who has many qualities that make him or her become reliable and dependable. A flat character is the second type. A flat character is the minor character. It is someone with a one sidedness, photographic one dimensional character. It is a character that has the antithetical role in a story. The flat character is someone who has no admirable qualities. He is someone with no three dimensional views of the world. “In Aspects of the Novel , [E.M.] Forster used the now famous term “flat” to describe the kind of character who is awarded a single, essential attribute, which is repeated without change as the person appears and reappears in a novel. Often such charac
Chronicles the stories of education, books, writing, and reading in the life of Steven Edmund Winduo, PNG writer extraordinaire, literacy advocate, social literary activist, literary scholar, & teacher. Fern Ridge is a translation of Safla Rama, where home is for SEW.