Emphasis Preaching Journal

Authors of novels create characters who come alive as the story unfolds. In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens created memorable personalities in Ebenezer Scrooge and Pip. In the twentieth century, Stephen King created monstrous personalities to terrorize the imaginations of readers: Carrie, even Christine and Cujo. Whether by delightful or demonic characters, our lives as readers were drawn into the accounts and we saw ourselves more clearly and understood our human condition more deeply.