PROMPT B:
Complex characters are made gradually throughout a book by the author subtly dropping hints every now and then. If an author thoroughly described every new character, the story would feel very forced and unnatural. Just like in real life, you need to discover something about a person periodically, just like you wouldn't meet someone new and somehow know everything about them. For example, in Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight, there were two different points of view, one for Amelia, and another one for Kate, Amelia's mother. Since there were two points of view, we could discover more things about the characters faster than with only one point of view. Kimberly McCreight does an excellent job of characterizing Amelia. She characterizes her as a girl who cares about academics and does a great job in them. In the first few pages of the book, it starts off in Kate's point of view, when she gets a call saying that Amelia has gotten into trouble and Kate needs to pick her up as soon as possible. This immediately makes you wonder what Amelia has done because she is a very well behaved student, causing the reader to read on. An example from the text to support this is on page 9 in Reconstructing Amelia,

“‘Apparently Amelia has gotten into some kind of trouble, which doesn’t make sense. She doesn’t get into trouble.’

‘Amelia? I’m fresh off singing her praises in that recommendation for the summer reading program at Princeton, so I may be biased, but I certainly don’t buy it.’ Jeremy put a sympathetic hand momentarily on Kate’s shoulder and smiled again (McCreight 9).”
Overall, authors develop characters slowly throughout the book to make you want to read on and in Kimberly McCreight did an excellent job of that in Reconstructing Amelia.

Reconstructing Amelia Article

My article is about how Kimberly McCreight came up with the idea to make Reconstructing Amelia and it tells us about her life. It turns out, this was her fourth book she's written, but she hasn't published any of the other ones just yet. She has had a bit of a struggle writing these books, she was told by her agent that her second book was so bad it was "unsalable"! All in all, Kimberly McCreight delivered a fantastic read for young girls.