How do I quote a character from a book for an english essay?

Question

Please help.

Answer 1

if you mean you want to take a quote and put it in your paper you do it like this

"put whatever the quote you want to use like so" (and then put the page number in these).  <---dont forget the period!

Answer 2

I don't live in the US, so I don't know what you guys learn for English literature.But here are some tips:

1)Talk about just one or two good characteristic(s) of the character.

2)Give a scene from the story which supports the characteristic.

3)Don't make it too long, neither too short.

4)Then talk about the bad ones and give the evidences from the book, and tell why you dislike those characteristics.

Answer 3

How you quote a character from a book depends on the type of book. You usually just enclose the characters quotation in quotation marks and follow it with an in-text citation (author's name plus page numbers).

Example for a novel: Joe says "I love AP English" (Smith 15-16).

Example for a play: Hamlet says “Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell / Why thy canoniz'd bones, hearsed in death” (I.iv.46-48,57).

You can see an example essay which uses character quotations if you go here:

http://www.apstudynotes.org/english/samp...

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

If you're referring to the mechanics of it, you'd write:

   Scout quieted the crowd when she innocently called out, "Hey, Mr. Cunningham" (Lee 216).