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Characterization Log
Directions: Track how your character develops over the course of your novel. Record your
observations about the character, provide text evidence, and explain how your text evidence
supports your observation.
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Character
Observation

Text Evidence

Analysis and Explanation

Example:
Eckels shows
desperation when
Travis confronts him
when they return to
the present.

Eckels moaned. He dropped to

his knees. He scrabbled at the
golden butterfly with shaking
fingers. Cant we, he pleaded
to the world, to himself, to the
officials, to the Machine, cant
we take it back; cant we make
it alive again? Cant we start
over? Cant we
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Eckels realizes that his mistake has led to

catastrophic changes in the world to which
he has returned. He realizes the
consequences could be deadly, and he is
desperately begging Travis to spare his life.

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