Finding The Doctor’s trait through the characterization

     Characterization is a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story. It is also the way in which authors convey information about their characters. Characterization can be direct, as when an author tells readers what a character is like or indirect, as when an author shows what a character is like by portraying his or her actions, speech, or thoughts. Descriptions of a character's appearance, behavior, interests, way of speaking, and the other attitudes are all part of characterization. In other words, there are several stages forming character’s characterizations; how the personality of the character is like, how the following of an introduction of the character continued and how the other character responds to her/his personality.

      And the stage fully showing The Doctor’s trait is when he was getting on with other character which is the head warder. It can be represented through “"Number 43 is no better, doctor," said the head warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door.
"Confound 43!" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian Sketcher.
"And 61 says his tubes are paining him. Couldn't you do anything for him?"
"He is a walking drug-shop," said I. "He has the whole British pharmacopoeia inside him. I believe his tubes are as sound as yours are." "(Doyle, 1882:01)

      We can see from the first paragraph that the Doctor shows his careless trait to the readers. Why would be careless? Because it is also shown when the doctor said “"All right, I'll have a look at him afterward," I said, tossing my paper carelessly aside, and pouring myself a cup of coffee. "Nothing else to report, I suppose, warder?"” (Doyle, 1882:01)

      But then, the head warder, McPherson tried to convince the Doctor that there is still an excuse, a patient who still needs to be taken care of. At first, the doctor said that he did mind doing an excuse, but when the head warder said “"You'd like it, doctor," said Warder McPherson, insinuating one of his shoulders into the room. "That man's story's worth listening to if you could get him to tell it, though he's not what you'd call free in his speech. Maybe you don't know who 82 is?"
"No, I don't, and I don't care either," I answered, in the conviction that some local ruffian was about to be foisted upon me as a celebrity.
"He's Maloney," said the warder, "him that turned Queen's evidence after the murders at blue-mansdyke."
"You don't say so?" I ejaculated, laying down my cup in astonishment.”"  (Doyle, 1882:01)

     When the doctor responded to head warder by doing so, we may conclude that the doctor is also a dedicated person, somebody who is responsible to his own profession, after he works all day and night, he still wants to take care of his patient.
Through the trait’s representation from the first page, we may conclude that we can find a character’s trait by knowing its characterization, that is a step-by-step process to highlight or to explain the character in details in a story which is how the main character responds to other character in the story. As in this story, we can find that the doctor is such a careless yet dedicated person.


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