Name: _________________ Number:______ Date: ___________

Character Map
Directions:
Draw & Color a picture of the main character in the center box.
Write an adjective on each blank line describing the main character.

Title of Story: _______The Dark Knight____________________

Characters Name:

Batman
Strong Courageous

resourceful Mysterious

Rich vengeful
Name: ________________ Number: ________ Date:_________
Choose one of your adjectives from your character map. Write it in the center box below.
Then, in the other boxes, write four examples from the story that show how the adjective
fits the character. Include the page number of where the example is found in the book.

Rachel Dawes: Wait! You could die. At
least tell me your name.
[pause]
Bruce Wayne: ...It's not who I am
underneath... but what I *do*... that
defines me.
Rachel Dawes: ...Bruce?
[Batman turns and leaps off the roof]
Page Number(s)
(Batman Begins)
Bruce Wayne: People need dramatic
examples to shake them out of apathy
and I can't do that as Bruce Wayne. As a
man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be
ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a
symbol... as a symbol I can be
incorruptible, I can be everlasting.
Alfred Pennyworth: What symbol?
Bruce Wayne: Something elemental,
something terrifying.
Page Number(s)
(Batman Begins)

Adjective

Courageous

Bruce Wayne: You're vigilantes.

Bruce Wayne: If this man is everything
Henri Ducard: No, no, no. A vigilante is
that you say he is, then this city needs me.
just a man lost in the scramble for his
Alfred: This city needs Bruce Wayne,
own gratification. He can be destroyed,
your resources, your knowledge. It
or locked up. But if you make yourself
doesn't need your body, or your life. That
more than just a man, if you devote
time has passed.
yourself to an ideal, and if they can't stop
Bruce Wayne: You're afraid that if I go
you, then you become something else
back out there I'll fail.
entirely.
Alfred: No. I'm afraid that you want to.
Bruce Wayne: Which is?
Henri Ducard: Legend, Mr. Wayne.
Page Number(s)
(Dark Knight Rises)
Page Number(s)
(Batman Begins)