Analysis Of Brownies By Zz Packer

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Characterization is a literary device that is used in literature to show and explain the details of a certain character in a story. The character could be described by the author directly or even indirectly through the speech, thoughts and actions of the character. A protagonist is the central character in the story who is usually considered the hero of the story. The protagonist is the character the reader and writer emphasizes with, while antagonist is a character who is against the protagonist and everything they stand for. An antagonist character is usually considered the villain of the story, who always tries to defeat the protagonist. The character I choose to analyze comes from the story Brownies who was written by ZZ Packer. The character's …show more content…

The girls go camping as they are passing through they see another group of girls made up of white girls. The author uses Arnetta to create drama in the story, Arnetta is the one who suspects that the white girls said a racial slur but never heard them actually say it. This character is has so much hatred for the white girls, that she makes up the lie. She pressures one of the characters to agree with her, she says “Daphne? Didn’t you hear them call you a nigger?” As Arnetta was asking the question she gave Daphne a nudge, which indicates that she wanted Dahne to agree with her and say yes. She pressured the girl to agree with her, she wanted to start trouble by going to beat up the young white girls.

The author gave Arnetta a dominant personality, where if she said something or was speaking the other girls would be quiet

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