Mr Nuttel And Vera Direct Characterization

There are many different ways to bring a character to life in a story. Saki uses a lot of these techniques to bring Mr.Nuttel and Vera into the story. Authors describe characters using various methods. These are direct characterization, indirect characterization, and motivation. Their style helps bring characters to life and into the story. These are some ways Saki describes the characters , Mr.Nuttel and Vera. To begin with, Saki develops Vera using using direct characterization. Direct characterization is when an author states directly what a character is like. It is their personality. Vera is a 15 year old girl who lives at a quiet rest home. She is a liar, very talkative, and open minded. It states in the short story on page 91, “Out through that window, three years ago to a day, her husband and her two younger brothers went off for a day’s shooting. They never came back. In crossing the moor to their favorite snipe-shooting ground they were all three engulfed in a
Motivation is how a character behaves or when a character does something that makes readers wonder why they did it. An example is when Vera told Mr.Nuttel that Mrs. Sappleton’s husband and children died when they went to hunt game. She told him it has been 3 years since the died. Mr.Nuttel believed it because he was mentally ill. When he saw them coming toward the house, he ran off. Readers could be asking, why did he tell him the story? Could she be mentally ill or was she playing a joke on him that went too far. Another example is at the end of the story it states, “I expect it was the spaniel”,said the niece calmly; “he told me he had a of dogs. He was once hunted into a cemetery somewhere on the banks of the Ganges by a pack of pariah dogs, and he had to spend the night in a newly dug grave with creatures snarling and grinning and foaming just above him.” Could it be her illness that made the story up, or could it be