Monday, June 4, 2012

Character Analysis


Character Analysis + Writing in role
Pierre Gringoire
          Throughout my first section we find out that Gringoire was not very well educated and learned that he was illiterate too till he was taught how to read and write. After taking in those skills Gringoire became a poet which he decided to make it into a play for the audience/ citizens at the Feast of fools and the epiphany. We discover also that Gringoire is also in a financial problem where he fails to pay his land lord.
January 7th 1482
Entry Number 74
Many things have taken its toll on me these past 2 days. I realize that I did not make any entries yesterday this was because of the fact of my failure to present my play to make money all thanks to that Coppenole who turned all the citizens’ attention to his idea of amusing… that feeble minded fool thinks that the Fool’s Pope is more entertaining than my play in which I worked so hard on… Near night rise I decided to go to the lake and contemplate suicide. Luckily I did not continue on with my actions instead I went to a bon fire to warm up. Surprising for me there was a dancer by the name of Esmeralda which so happens that the others around the bon fire knew about. Later on there was a mysterious figure that was wandering in the back alleys who ended up kidnapping Esmeralda.  




1.     “What are they about to say?” – this shows that Gringoire is quite impatient and does not like to be interrupted while he is doing his work


2.     “A plague on both the stupid and dull witted girl” – that showed that Gringoire finds some people ignorant and incompetent when they do not understand his work of poetry




Esmeralda
          In the first 2 chapters the character of Esmeralda was mainly left as a mystery for the reader and to Gringoire. Through near the end of chapter two we learn that Esmeralda is a dancer on the streets who so happens to end up saving Gringoire’s life by marrying him. We are not really introduced to an in-depth analysis on the characteristics of Esmeralda we only currently know that she is a young dancer and seems to be caring for others because she chose to save Gringoire’s life from being killed by the king in which she now has to be married to Gringoire for 4 years.
January 7 1482
Today for some reason I felt like there were much more people watching me dancing even though there are hundreds a day. I felt like someone was following to me today while I was heading home but I think it was just my imagination. I do not know why but for some reason I decided to save someone by marrying them this man looks very familiar I think he may have watched me dance before maybe…?


I could not find any quotes because the book is mostly in Third person context




Quasimodo
            This character in the first section still remains a mystery. We are only mainly introduced to the physical appearance of Quasimodo; we know that he has a hunchback, only one working eye, he is deaf, and that he has a “deformed” face. This first section does not introduce the personality that Quasimodo has but we find out that he somewhat likes attention because he participated in the Fool’s Pope competition against other citizens and he even ended up winning in the competition.

January 6 1482
Today one of the higher in command personnel announced that there would be a competition of the Fool’s Pope I decided to join in and it so happened that I won and was the Fool’s Pope for today. I felt very happy because I got the attention of so many people and I ended up winning competition against all the others.