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Monday, March 29, 2010

Character Archetypes

In the book, The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones, character archetypes are not set in stone. These book is about two characters who are confused about who own a house. This story is set in Canada in a very dark, muddy setting.

There are two main characters who have appeared in the story so far. These two characters do not contain many of the features of any archetype, but most likely because the author wanted to create suspense. These two characters named Mimi and Jay are the first two characters you encounter in the story. They do not have the characteristics of a herald, shapeshifter, shadow, trickster, hero, mentor, or threshhold guardian. The story has much more of a journal entry type feel to it. Evidence of any true archetypes are none while elements of archetypes are there but there isn't enough evidence to prove a character has a certain archetype.

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