Analysing Character (Célianne)

1.  WHO AM I?  

My name is Célianne. People always think I'm about nineteen to twenty years old. However, I'm fifteen. I lived in Fort-au-Prince with my mother and my brother. Both of them are probably died by now. Maybe it's easier that way. We don't have to see each other and remind each other of that terrible past anymore. The scars on my face might be horrible. But no one knows it hurts even more on the inside. It tortures me every time I inhale, reminding me I'm still alive, still not free. I'm so hangry. I don't have any food with me. But I have to be strong. My baby needs me. Her face is so small and soft. Maybe she's so hangry too. She refuse to talk to me because I didn't give her enough food. Oh my poor little girl. Please forgive mommy. Once we get on land, I will find you everything you need. I will take the rest of my life to give you all the love I have. When you ask me, I will tell you that your father is the kindest man I have ever seen. He was so brave. The beasts with suits hunted him down at night. Their bloody mouths had beaten all my loves, drinking every drop of blood inside them. Your father fought for us. He was taken away. The angle from heaven saved him and lead him to heaven.

(All the details about your character including name, age, address, relatives, likes, dislikes, hobbies, career, description of physical traits, opinions, beliefs, religion, education, origins, enemies, loved ones, sociological influences, etc.) 

2.  WHAT TIME IS IT? 

(Century, season, year, day, minute, significance of time)  

It is around 1964. Duvalier and his Tontons Macoutes took over the country, delivering endless torture to all Haitians. People all live in fear. The soldiers can come into your house anytime they want, and do anything they want you to do. Lives are never stable back then.

3.  WHERE AM I? 

(Country, city, neighborhood, home, room, area of room)  

I'm on a boat to Miami. I don't even know where Miami is. I don't know what I will do when I arrive there either. I just don't want to live in such a living hell anymore. People brought their own food on the boat. I don't have any. Some of them were nice enough to order me a piece of bread. I appreciate that, a lot. 

4.  WHAT SURROUNDS ME? 

(Animate and inanimate objects-complete details of environment)  

There are thirty one others on the boat. I don't know any of them. They don't know me either. I like it this way. They tell stories to each other. I like to sit and listen to them talking. But all changed after the boat had some cracks on it. Everyone is throwing out their belongings. They want me to throw out my poor little baby too. How can they do that? I will never let them separate us apart. I have to be strong. I have to make it to the end of this journal. Even just for my little one. Please, even just a breath of it, let me and my baby reach the air of freedom. 

5.  WHAT ARE THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES? 

(Past, present, future and all of the events)  

Covered in the previous questions. 

6.  WHAT IS MY RELATIONSHIP? 

(Relation to total events, other characters, and to things)  

Covered in the previous question. 

7.  WHAT DO I WANT? 

(Character's need.  The immediate and main objective)  

I want to live in a place where my baby and I can fall of sleep without having to worry about being killed by the soldier who randomly walks into our house in the middle of the night. I want my baby to grow up, to live a good life. I want her to live with freedom. I want her to remember what had happened to her ancestors, the Haitians. People don't know the things unseen. People don't see the things unwritten. But people can always tell the stories told to them, generations after generations.  

8.  WHAT IS IN MY WAY? 

(The obstacles which prevent character from getting his/her need)  

I don't know weather we can make it to Miami or not. More and more cracks are appearing on the boat. The captain has ran out the toll. I don't know when we will get to see that land. I don't know where we will sink in this endless water. I don't know. I will hold to my baby tight. No matter what happens, we will never be a part. 

9.  WHAT DO I DO TO GET WHAT I WANT? 

(The action: physical and verbal, also-action verbs)

Covered in previous question.