Exotics<\/a>“. The narrative follows the main character, James, who works as a teacher in a single-room school house, and spends his summer working on a ranch\u00a0in Fort Worth, Texas. The story takes place just after one of James’ students commits suicide in the school’s bathroom.<\/p>\nThe character chart that I created links James to every character he interacts with within the story. Each link signifies a direct conversation that occurred between each character. Absence of links signifies that the characters are not related within the story. As seen through the graph, while many characters share connections, the common thread between all characters in the story is, unsurprisingly, James. Unfortunately, much is left out from this graph, such as the nature of the connections, the themes and symbols that appeared throughout the story, or even who the characters are. In fact, it’s a bit frustrating how little the chart elucidates, and is arguably more distracting than it is telling. For this reason, it might not be appropriate to graph connections between characters, but perhaps maybe appropriate to connect symbols with the themes that they represent, as the character connections play a small role in the larger scheme of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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For today’s blog post, I chose to make a character chart for the short story, “Exotics<\/a>“. The narrative follows the main character, James, who works as a teacher in a single-room school house, and spends his summer working on a ranch\u00a0in Fort Worth, Texas. The story takes place just after one of James’ students commits suicide in the school’s bathroom.<\/p>\n