1) Characterization is defined in “Literature Reading. Reacting. Writing” as a way in which writers develop their characters and reveal those character traits to the reader. In other word Characterization is the way the author describes the character in more detail. It’s a way for the author tells us the reader important information about the character. Characterization can make the story more interesting and creates the story to be more detailed. Two stories in which characterization makes the story better and are similar in the way that the themes go is “A&P” written by John Updlike and “Araby” written by James Joyce. Both story is about a worker who is admiring a woman from a far. In “A&P” Updlike characterize the three girls who walk in the store that he is working. He describes in details of how the girls looked and even the color of their bathing suite and how how they were wearing the bathing suite. Sammy, worker even described how queenie the main girl walked with her head held up high and how the other girls just followed her around. In “Abary” the worker as well described the women that he admires from a far. He described the way that her dressed flowed and the way her hair sat in the side of her shoulder.

2) Symbols is defined in “Literature. Reading. Reacting. Writing” as a person, object, action or idea whose meaning transcends its literal or denotative sense in a complex way. There are different types of symbols. One which is universal symbol which is a symbol which is known all over the world. The textbook uses the grim reaper as an example for a universal symbol. Another type of symbol is Convention symbols such as national flags. Symbols is what gives the story more of an edge. It creates more of an interesting twist to the story. A story in which “Happy ending” by Margaret Atwood. In “Happy Ending” Atwood tells a similar story in