How Does a Real Person Become a Character? Maya Chung. Fri, January 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM UTC. ... Yet there is a way to breathe life into the dead without ventriloquizing them, ...

If you’re the type of person who can listen to someone’s story without jumping to conclusions or making them feel judged, then this could be why people find it easy to trust you.

Tuck, conversely, tries to enliven her Czesława with invented details and anecdotes, but her portrait has something of the opposite effect—a character who doesn’t feel quite real.