Lesson No.

2
Charaters and Setting of a story

Name: Atta Ur Rehman

Subject: English
Class: 5th
Lesson Objective:
Students of 5th Class will be able to identify the different characters
and setting of a story.
 Character of a story
What is mean by character of a story?
A character is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.

What a character do?

A character performs the actions and speak dialogue to move the story along a
plot line.
What would be the number of Characters?
A story can have one or more Characters.
A story can have only one character and still be a complete story.
A story can have many characters as well.
What are the Types of Characters?
There are four major types of characters
 1. Protagonist:
The main character of the story is the protagonist.
For example, Hero, Heroine
2. Antagonist:
The villain of the story is the antagonist.
3. Love interest:
The love interest is the protagonist’s object of desire.
4. Side Characters:
All other characters besides Protagonist, Antagonist and Love interest are
called side characters.
How to identify the characters?
Ask yourself, who is the story about. The person that the story about is the
“protagonist” or Hero/Heroine, the rival or enemy of the protagonist is “antagonist”
or villain and the person for which the rivalry is the “Love interest”.
Setting of a story
A setting is the time and place in which a story is told.
It tells use about
When? Time of happening
Where ? place of happening
Of a story.
Examples of place: Farms, home, school, forest
Examples of timing: Winters, summer, long time ago, evening

Example of Characters and setting

One day a fox was hungry. He had nothing to eat. He went here and there in search
of food. He wandered about the whole day long, but could get nothing to eat. At last
he came to a garden. There he saw grapes hanging from a vine. The grapes were
ripe and nice. His mouth watered to see the grapes. He wanted to eat them.
 The grapes were high up. He jumped again-and-again to get at the grapes, but in
vain. They were too high for him. At last he was tired. He gave up trying. He went
away saying. “These grapes are sour, If I eat them, I shall fall ill.”

Moral: Those who cannot get a thing, often say that they do not want it.
Character: Fox
Setting: Garden