The Understanding of Characters Through Relationships Relationships create strong holds in novels. They give a sense of what to base a character's acts and decision's on. Through how the author uses their tone and descriptions, relating to relationships, a sense of characterization can be developed. "Anna Karenina", by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Joel Carmichael, and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa, are no exception to this clause. Relationships …showed first 75 words of 1208 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1208 total…s the characters these qualities. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Joel Carmichael, and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa, both use relationships to explain who the characters are. The characters throughout the novel are related to a relationship or relationships of some sort. Because of the author using these relationships to their literary benefit the relationships show a sense of who the characters are.