Characterization in literature related to graphic narrative

Characterization in literature is the process of creating a character whose features exterior and interior usually differ from those of the author. In this way a writer can lead such a narrative from the perspective of the child, the person of the opposite sex, a representative of another race or culture, or any form, which differs from the creator of appearance and personality.

With a well-conducted characterization, character can make an impression of complete and complex (though the features and views of the author may be quite different), leading to the increased realism of the work.

Characterization may include different features such as appearance, age, gender, education level, profession or occupation, financial status, marital status, hobbies, religious beliefs, ambitions, motivations, etc. Usually these characteristics are not presented to the reader as a direct description, but gradually they result from acts and language of the creature.

In the literature fan fiction, a full characterization is usually unnecessary, because the author describes characters familiar to the reader. The exception is when the action takes place in an alternate reality, where even the well-known personality as may be changed.

Those guidelines also apply to graphic narratives as its correspondingly reflect the form of literature (by having the story line and characters). The difference between them two it the fact that graphic narratives are including images or some sort of drawings and having shorter narration, descriptions or dialog.

Types of characterization:

·         Characteristics of individuals - presenting one embodiment, a particular form is auto-characterization, it is usually presentation of an author

·         Comparative characteristics – revealing more than one creature, designed to show the differences and similarities between them

·         The Collection - presenting a group of people

·         Direct characteristics - the characteristics of the individual are called directly,

·         Indirect characterization - not called directly characteristics, the reader with a description of the behaviour of the hero has to deduce who it is like

·         External characteristics - is a manifestation of what you see (the character features and its functioning in the world depicted

·         Internal characteristics - is a manifestation of what you cannot see directly (as psychic experiences of a character)

·         Static characteristics - is characterized by a character in a particular time of life

·         Dynamic - changes personality of character by some occurrence for example an event or the passage of time