I choose to compare and contrast Nicholas and Paul's characteristics.

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        I choose to compare and contrast Nicholas and Paul’s characteristics. Character plays an important part in a story. Sometimes, characters can create a sympathetic atmosphere with the description of their personalities that touch our emotion. We learn about characteristics of characters by the physical attributes, dialogues, actions, opinion from the other characters and the author's comments. We also know about an author's style when we analyze the characters.

        There is development in Paul’s characteristic from the beginning of the story until the story ends. The plot of the story proves to us that he is a dynamic character. Lawrence introduces Paul as a usual and normal boy who lives a lavish lifestyle family. The situation gets worse when the family face financial problems. Paul tries to find luck to solve this problem. To Paul, luck is money and money is the way to get his mother’s love. We know he is a round character through Lawrences’s description of Paul becoming obsessed boy in getting the money through horseracing gambling.

Saki uses different ways to describe Nicholas. Nicholas is a flat character because his characteristics do not change from the beginning to the end of the story. His mischievousness actions that presented in the beginning to the end of the story prove to us that he is a flat character.

        Nicholas and Paul are curious boys. Saki reveals Nicholas's characteristic when Nicholas is very eager to know what is in the lumber room “…Often and often Nicholas had pictured to himself what the lumber-room might be like, that region that was so carefully sealed from youthful eyes and concerning which no questions were ever answered...”.

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         Lawrence describes Paul as a curious son when he searches for the meaning of luck in his conversation with his mother, Hester. “…"Is luck money, mother?" he asked, rather timidly…..". He also curious about the horseracing when he asked about it to Bassett "Master Paul comes and asks me, so I can't do more than tell him, sir," . He believed gambling could give him money “..when Uncle Oscar said filthy lucker, it meant money."

Paul and Nicholas are also very determined boys. Nicholas wants to proof to the “older, wiser, and better people” that they sometimes can be wrong ...

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