Blog Post #3 Question 3: Kendra

Character Development is one of my favorite parts of writing because just by describing an expression you can convey so much about the person behind the 'face'. One of the first thing's I noted about the movie was Carol's clothing choice. She came across as someone who doesn't care, she wore very large clothing and it swallowed her alive which gave me the impression that she felt out of place and uncomfortable, because when you cover yourself with a tent of drab fabric and call it clothing you are almost definitely hiding from something. Her clothing choice as well as her demeanor told me a story of a self conscious girl who was on the cusp of complete castigation. Which was reinforced by the conversation she had with John when she described her seat placement in a back corner. But suddenly nearing the end of the film she appears in a blazer and she looks mildly professional, I say mildly because the blazer was still ill fitted. Now whether this change was 'intended' from the start, like her group planned out her transformation from a fringe girl to someone who knows what she's talking about is debatable. I believe she was recruited by this "group" because they saw that they could take this shy girl and dangle promises of a brighter future out of the shadows of the fringe life she'd been living. The character evidence of her clothing going from frumpy to business frumpy and her constant nagging question asking seems to support that theory because even as she comes back in her blazer with her notebooks full of notes, she still asks "what does that mean?" every time he uses a big word, and the blazer still hangs on her like she's trying to hide. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that what I saw when I looked at Carol was a girl who'd been manipulated and used for the purpose of unseating John and banning a list of books.