Character Reflection (Best Sellers)

Likeability -

     The narrator of my book is not very likeable in the beginning, but as the story progresses she becomes more likeable as she begins making better decisions.  She does fit some of the arguments Claire Messud made in the article we read, because she's not likeable in the beginning for how she's making all the wrong decisions like leaving Uglyville to betray her friend Shay even though she promised that it wouldn't happen, and doing all of that just to get the operation to become pretty and live in New Pretty Town.  But even with this, like Messud said, we still 'like' Tally (main character) in a different way because she is so interesting and BECAUSE she makes such decisions that we wouldn't.  Their society is so different from ours, that we are intrigued to see how people think based on their growing-up environment.  There is a connection between the book's genre and the narrator it has because if the book's genre is 'dystopian', for instance, the narrator tends to be the one person that is or becomes different from everyone else in their futuristic society, (ex. The Hunger Games Trilogy, Divergent Trilogy, Uglies Series), and we like that.  Or maybe in the instance of 'fantasy' the narrator tends to be someone going on a journey to find / save something / someone and using interesting powers or fantastic creatures (ex. Eragon Series, The Hobbit, Harry Potter).