Direct and Indirect Characterization--To Kill a Mockingbird

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Indirect characterization

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Inferred from thoughts, speech, actions

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Dill's description: blue linen shorts, snow white hair

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Direct characterization

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Calpurnia's description: angles, bones, nearsighted, squinting, wide hand

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Direct characterization

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Aunt Alexandra's treatment of Scout

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Proper and judgmental

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Characterization type: Walter's description

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Direct characterization

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Francis and Aunt Alexandra's character

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Judgmental

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Indirect characterization of Dill:

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Exaggerates his stories.

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Filthiest human description

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Direct characterization

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Uncle Jack's joke about a minister smoking hookah

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Indirect characterization

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Types of characterization

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Direct and indirect