2nd period Due: Wednesday, September, 22

Braiden Doyle 7th grade

Book: The lottery by Shirley Jackson
Characterization Chart

Characterization is the way an author develops characters in a story. Sometimes

authors use direct characterization, where they directly tell the reader what a
character is like. Other times they use indirect characterization, where they give the
reader hints or clues about a character through the way the character acts in different
situations.

Directions: Complete the following graphic organizer by recording examples from the
text and then record what can be inferred about the character based on the example.

Characterization Example from text What can be inferred from

method the example?

"Tessie," Mr. Summers said.
She hesitated for a minute,
looking around defiantly. and
Character’s then set her lips and went up
actions to the box. She snatched a
paper out and held it behind
her." Pg 6 of The lottery
You can infer from this example that Mrs.
Hutchinson was fearful of the lottery, and
was hesitant to draw because her husband
bill won the other half and now it was just
his family drawing for the last half of the
lottery, her chance of winning the lottery
was increased, and so was her fear of
drawing the card with the black dot.

You can infer from this example that

"Mrs. Hutchinson came Mrs. Hutchinson was in a hurry, I
hurriedly along the path to the know this because the text states that
Hutchinson

Character’s square, her sweater thrown
over her shoulders and slid
appearance into place in the back of the
crowd." Pg 2 of The lottery
Tessie
" Mrs. Hutchinson came hurriedly
along the path to the square, her
sweater thrown over her shoulders, "
which means that she was in a hurry.
She had her sweater over her
shoulders so i can infer that she is not

neatley dressed in this paragraph.

"Clean forgot what day it was," she said to
Mrs. Delacroix, who stood next to her, and
Character’s they both laughed softly. "Thought my old
man was out back stacking wood," Mrs.
conflicts Hutchinson went on. "and then I looked out
the window and the kids were gone, and then
I remembered it was the twenty-seventh and
came a-running." Pg 2 of The lottery
You can infer from this example that
Mrs. Hutchinson was late and forgot what
day the lottery was, you can also infer that
she has a sense of humor about her conflict
and that she has a popular appearance to the
townspeople. She is very good-natured
about her mishappening with the time and
doesn't think anything about it.

Tessie Hutchinson shouted to Mr.

Summers. "You didn't give him time
Character’s enough to take any paper he wanted.
I saw you. It wasn't fair!"
responses
Characterization Example from text What can be inferred from
method the example?

Character’s
actions

Character’s
appearance

Character’s
conflicts

Character’s
responses