First, highlight the personality of the characters in the description of language and action.
Characters' thoughts, feelings and personality characteristics are mainly expressed through their own words and deeds. When writing, students should be good at making the words and deeds, every move and smile of the characters they write have their own characteristics, full of distinctive personality and showing a unique inner world. For example, the exercise "Heaven and Earth Conscience":
Father was fired.
As a matter of fact, my father should not be fired. There are 100 people in the factory. Who doesn't know my father's name "Expert Li"? But he did get fired. It's all because of his ignorant brain. As early as before the downsizing, the section chief told him: "I am old and hope to receive a pension for several years." However, it's hard to say now ... "The meaning is obvious. As long as my father is enlightened and gives some benefits to the section chief, the laid-off will definitely not fall on his head. As soon as I mentioned this, my father was furious: "Ask your conscience. We do things aboveboard! " "
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Father took the towel and wiped his tomatoes and cucumbers one by one. The cleaned vegetables are fresher and will definitely fetch a good price. I tend to say to my father, "spraying some water on vegetables will not only make them fresher, but also sell a few kilograms more!" " Father flew into a rage after hearing this: "I sell vegetables, not water." I said, "That's what everyone else does. Father flew into a rage: "Bastard, where did you learn crooked ways?" "I tell you, our surname Li would never do such a heartless thing! To be a man, you must be honest, upright and worthy of your conscience. "
In the process of describing events, special attention should be paid to expressing the personality characteristics of "father" in personalized language. In the face of the "good-hearted induction" of the section chief, my father's answer is "patting my chest and asking my conscience, I do things aboveboard", which shows the feelings of integrity, selflessness and aboveboard; In the face of the temptation to profit by mixing water, my father's answer is "to be honest and upright, and to be worthy of our conscience", which shows the virtue of honesty and trustworthiness.
Second, highlight the personality of the characters in vivid details.
Lev tolstoy said, "Art starts from the smallest", and the smallest here refers to the details that show the beauty of human feelings and humanity and have permanent artistic value. Successful detail description can often reach the artistic realm of "expressing feelings and expressing ideas at a glance". For example, Liu Wei's "Going Home" is about a young Haizi studying in a middle school more than twenty miles away from home. In order to save 8 points for each ticket, he runs home every week. I even ran home barefoot so as not to wear out my shoes.
"It was freezing, and my mother saw it from a distance. Haizi ran back barefoot, wearing a pair of shoes and wrapped in cold. Niang froze. Haizi looked at his parents and said timidly,' I didn't wear shoes. I ran back barefoot. Mother hugged Haizi fiercely, hugged him tightly, red-eyed and in tears. Dad turned and walked out of the house. It was cold outside. Dad stood still in the yard. "
This detailed description shows us a steaming heart beating in the ice and snow. Time, space, cold and poverty can't stop Haizi's yearning for his hometown and his loving mother. Haizi was wrapped in a chill, and his blood flowed in his veins.
Haizi grew up and became a policeman. For the peace of thousands of families in Qian Qian, he seldom goes home. At the end of the article, the author arranged a detailed description:
"Later, when dealing with an unexpected case, Haizi, who was at the forefront, was seriously injured. It was a little bad. On the way to the hospital for emergency treatment, Haizi took his colleague's hand and said,' I want to go home and see my mother, ... I haven't been home for three months, ...' Then it really failed. "
"I want to go home and see my mother." Haizi's earnest call for his hometown and loving mother at the last moment of his life is the unity of emotion and reason in the hero's inner world. This detail shows the hero's deep attachment to his loving mother who risked his life for the benefit of the people. This beautiful feeling also makes Haizi's image more radiant.
Third, highlight the personality characteristics in the sharp contrast description.
Contrastive description is an effective way to write characters' personalities, because truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood and ugliness are the easiest to show in comparison. There are two methods of comparative description: one is to show the change of one's understanding of the same thing through one's reflection back and forth; The second is to highlight their spiritual realm through two or more people's different attitudes towards the same thing. For example, the exercise "Tears in My Heart":
"Walter, your grandfather ..." Mom's eyes were red and tears rolled down her face. I have never seen her so sad.
My dearest grandfather died, and he quietly went to another world. However, I didn't cry.
Will there still be an old face facing the blue sky in the dark and humid attic? Can the worms under the wall still hear the melancholy sigh? Will the nagging mother still say that Grandpa is "old and immortal" ... Oh, no. ..
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"Grandpa, aren't you afraid? Rats can bite people. " I asked seriously. Grandpa with a gray beard moved his shriveled lips and said, "Oh, grandpa is not afraid. It doesn't matter when you get old. You are too young to understand. " Grandpa smiled, and cold tears overflowed from his cloudy eyes, flowed over his cheeks and into his sad heart.
I don't understand why my mother always looks at my grandfather coldly, let alone why she says that my grandfather is "seventy and eighty years old, and it's time to die, but he still won't leave." ……
When I knocked on the door of the dark attic for the last time, my tearful grandfather was lying in bed, breathing weakly. He hasn't dripped water for several days. I picked up my mother's fried eggs and warm milk and walked to my grandfather.
Tears that are sour and sad flow silently in my heart. ...
My mother prepared fried eggs and warm fresh milk for me, but she didn't take good care of my seriously ill grandfather. Instead, she kept the old man in a dark, damp attic with rats, and always used harsh words and curses, hoping that the old man would die at once. When the old man really died, his mother was also "red-eyed and tearful". At this time, I didn't cry, only the sadness soaked by tears before my grandfather died and my own sadness flowed in my heart.
It is this multi-level rich contrast that highlights the personality of "me" and "mother": one heart is really pure, but the other is covered with worldly dirt.
To write a character's character, you should be good at observing, be a conscientious person, carefully observe the behavior and mental state of people around you, capture the details with personality characteristics in time, take observation notes and accumulate writing materials with personality characteristics.