The two Characters of my liking.

Great characters are the characters that you understand, that you feel for. Characters that you as a reader can relate to. Arnold, the main character from True Diary by Sherman Alexi is a perfect example of that. He's relate able, he shows his feelings well, and you really get to know him like he was your friend. On the other hand we also love characters who aren't relate able what so ever but we are envious of because of there amazing traits and their characteristics. No character demonstrates that better then Tom Sawyer, the main character of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain go figure.

The reason why Arnold displays so much emotion and so many thoughts to us is because he is written in the first person view. Not only this but his character is relate able and has the traits of a normal human being. He isn't special (Other then the fact that he has a brain disorder.) and that makes us feel more for this amazing character as he grows and matures through out the book.

Unlike Arnold, Tom Sawyer is written in the third person view, and that's a good thing because of his traits and characteristics. Tom is a very special almost inhuman due to his brilliant traits, such as slyness, cunning, smart, adventurousness, and of course bravery. If this story was told in the first-person view I doubt it would be as iconic as it is. Watching Tom grow and fool everyone in his community is so much fun as it is in the third-person.

A good example of the time it's better to have a third person view is when in Tom Sawyer, Tom tricks all of his friends into painting a fence and better yet making them give him  something so that they could paint it for him. This Wouldn't be fun in the third-person because what would Tom be thinking other then, "hahaha what a bunch of suckers!", this might be decent, but not  for a page. A good example of when It's good to have a first-person view is when Arnold is getting booed and attacked verbally by the Spokane indians. This chapter is full of emotion because he is Spokane and this is full of emotion so you want to see his point of view.

In conclusion any character can be great but each character has to fit its writing style. If you have a character that fits the wrong writing style it won't be as good as if it fit the right writing style. These characters just happen to fit their writing styles perfectly and I enjoy that about these characters. This is what I like to see about characters and I hope that more authors learn about it.