Sentence examples for thoughts of characters from inspiring English sources

Layered in a way the thoughts of characters in books are not usually layered – and it's made me think about how shallowly people are usually portrayed in fiction, with just the top surface of their minds, the one that drives what the person is going to say or do next.

Secondly, he has offered us the greatest written examples of the use of this language, through the all-too-human thoughts of characters such as Hamlet, King Lear, Falstaff and Macbeth.

"Sewing for the Heart" is the closest we get to witnessing an actual act of vengeance; many of the other stories delineate the turbulent thoughts of characters thirsty for revenge or present the act as a fait accompli, but in this story, we are led right to the moment when the main character, a bag-maker, is on the cusp of taking revenge.

As we watch, it is difficult to be sure as to whether we are suddenly listening in on the deepest thoughts of these characters or whether these characters are suddenly acting on their darkest impulses.

This pov is like a camera that follows the characters around, showing their actions and dialogue, and not entering into the internal thoughts of the characters.

Note that the writer can offer insight or guesses regarding the thoughts of other characters, but those guesses must be presented through the perspective of the main character.

Because the pov is omniscient, it has a "god like" distance from the characters and can have a bird's eye view of the events, actions, and thoughts of the characters.

Most significantly the movie made poetic use of voice-over dialogue that revealed the inner thoughts of the characters.

Marías also puts the thoughts of his characters in quotation marks, blurring the distinction between what is said and what is only thought.

Almost all her stories are written in the third person, and almost all of them access the thoughts of multiple characters.

King has a habit (habit? habits are formed, this is something innate) of indenting brackets or dropping the italicised thoughts of his characters into his third-person narratives.