'How stupid can you get'" (German 5).
It's this honest rendering of Cameron's fatal flaw that gives him his shape or his "roundness" as a character. Readers know individuals who are so myopic or self-absorbed that they cannot imagine what it's like to be someone else or they cannot see the error in their own hypocritical behavior. At the end of the day, that's what Cameron is, a hypocrite. And therein lies the message to the reader; the moral of the story, the important stuff, self-reflection and self-criticism are integral to personal growth.
In Noux's story, "Cruelty the Humans Heart," the "round" character isn't the protagonist, (in this case the narrator) rather the "round" character is the delinquent the protagonist arrests and interacts with throughout the story; the problem child, Cristoph Priest.
In a brief but powerful clause, the narrator prefaces an early encounter with Priest: "We met ugly..." he says (Noux 1). In three small words Noux's narrator sets the tone for the entire piece. The reader knows that things are about to get ugly and it's also at this point that the reader can begin to grasp the scope and breadth of the narrator's antipathy for Priest, in addition to the turpitude of Priest himself. Soon after this introduction the reader is exposed to the violent ways of this young malcontent, "Cris looked at me, turned to his right and shot a big yellow dog who was just standing there, watching us" (Noux 1), "Cris, leaning against my front bumper, was strangling the birds still flopping on his belt. He snapped their necks before I could get to him" (Noux 3), and "Then he spit in my face" (Noux 3).
All three of these suggest an individual who is deeply disturbed, perhaps even anti-social. However, by just singling out the actions of Priest the reader is given a rather "flat" character, a character with no surprises. After all, the reader expects the anti-social character to torture innocent animals, the reader expects...
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