Dirty and ragged, Demelza needs cleaning up before she can work in the house. At the beginning of Demelza’s story, Captain Ross Poldark saves her from a brawl in the streets and employs her as his maid. In fact, characters in serialized narratives probably shouldn’t have life-changing epiphanies in every installment, lest they transform into an incredibly demented version of themselves.ĭemelza from Winston Graham’s Poldark series is a great example of a serialized dynamic character.
But not every dynamic character needs to experience an earth-shattering change. Small personal changes can still be significantĪs a coming-of-age novel, The Curious Incident is particularly introspective and character-focused. Tell us about your book, and we'll give you a writing playlist Writing a book? Tell us a little bit about it and we’ll give you the perfect backing track for your writing sessions. So not the sort of change that happens during the life of your average Joe. Christopher and his dad in the stage adaption of The Curious Incident Ĭhristopher’s is exactly the kind of trajectory you’ll find in lots of novels: a condensed, dramatic transformation, kick-started by a character’s goal, and brought about by the personal obstacles they face while trying to achieve that goal. To surmount those obstacles and solve the mystery, then come to terms with everything that’s happened, Christopher has to become less naive and more independent - changes that inspire new hope for his future.
His quest for answers sends him on quite the journey, during which he has to overcome several personal obstacles. The narrative arcs found in fiction, however, are all about exceptional moments: the moments when characters are confronted with drastic circumstances and forced to adapt.įor example, in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Christopher finds out that his dad killed a dog and that his mum is not dead, as he previously thought, but instead living with his neighbor’s ex-husband in London - events that would surely change anyone’s perspective on life.Ĭhristopher only has these revelations because he discovers a dead dog at the beginning of the novel and decides to find out who killed it. In everyday life, human beings do change, but usually over a long period of time - or because they reach a particular turning point, such as college or retirement.
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