The main purpose of a flashback is to
a. make a printed story seem more like a movie
b. answer the questions who? what? where? why? and how?
c. introduce the main character to the other characters
d. show what happened at an earlier point in the story

Authors often employ characters who might be considered wicked, immoral, or amoral based on their actions. choose such a character from a novel or play read previously in this course. in a well organized essay, explain how and why the overall presentation of the character invokes sympathy on the reader's part and how this is important to the author's purposes.