AP English essay part 2 question

Kyle Newby October 22, 2000 AP English Emma essay A tale of an illegitimate child cast in the path of a rich and well to do socialite. How would their paths cross? What are they like, how do they act, and how are they characterized? Many times in literature authors use characters in their stories to characterize and evaluate other characters in the same story. In this excerpt the main character Harriet is treated as a puppet …showed first 75 words of 625 total…

…showed last 75 words of 625 total…She allows a young girl to come to one of her parties because of the way she looked and dressed, and then decided that she could take Harriet and shape her. Emma would make her give up her poor friends and Emma would introduce her to what she thought of as a good society. We can see that Emma really had no compassion and was only toying with Harriet, but in a naïve way.