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.
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.
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.
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.
