One thing I’ve been told repeatedly as a writer is to make the main character likable or provide something that makes the reader connect with the character.\u00c2\u00a0 I recently reviewed a book in which the main character was unlikable.\u00c2\u00a0 The character was so unpleasant I kept wanting to put the book down unfinished but\u00c2\u00a0didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 If I was going to review the book I felt I should read the entire thing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
The main character can be an antihero who appears to have no heroic qualities.\u00c2\u00a0 Through events they may rise to the occasion\u00c2\u00a0and become\u00c2\u00a0a hero.\u00c2\u00a0 One recent example I’ve read about is Amir from The Kite Runner<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 As a child he does nothing to help his best friend escape some bullies.\u00c2\u00a0 As an adult, he risks his life to save his best friend’s child.<\/p>\n Some characters are villains.\u00c2\u00a0 Villains provide an antithesis to the hero.\u00c2\u00a0 The first two villains that come to mind are Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett.\u00c2\u00a0 They had motives for the crimes they committed.\u00c2\u00a0 Sweeney Todd had a need to always have money on him.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of us can understand monetary insecurity or greed.\u00c2\u00a0 Mrs. Lovett wanted to return to the stage and the limelight but required money to travel out of the country.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of us can understand the need for money to make a dream come true.\u00c2\u00a0 These motives provided insight and made them seem a bit less distasteful.<\/p>\n Have you ever met a character that made you stop reading the book or story?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you have any favorite antiheroes or villains?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One thing I’ve been told repeatedly as a writer is to make the main character likable or provide something that makes the reader connect with the character.\u00c2\u00a0 I recently reviewed a book in which the main character was unlikable.\u00c2\u00a0 The character was so unpleasant I kept wanting to put the book down unfinished but\u00c2\u00a0didn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 If… Continue reading Not a Villain – Just an Unlikable Character!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}