Give selected character a name. Explain how and why this name was given. Explain the situation from the character's viewpoint. Following the study of biographical form, students can write a fictional biography of their selected character. Upon selection of their character, students can provide support as to why they think their character feels a particular way, or looks the way they do.
Students can develop a creative story based on the character traits from the list.
The checklist can help students to identify traits in characters found in various literature sources. In this body of work the images are metaphors for pages in a visual novel portraying a subculture that has endured in the Mexican American community since the second World War. One is born a Mexican American, but one chooses to be a Chicano . Politically charged, the Chicano lifestyle has been passed from one generation to another. It has survived wars, prisons, and strife.