Payment for an office or employment; compensation. [Middle English, from Latin Ämolumentum, gain, originally a miller's fee for grinding grain, from Ämolere, to grind out : Ä-, ex-, ex- + molere, to grind; see melÉ- in Indo-European roots.] American HeritageÂ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
What determines a person's character? How is a person's character determined? Life is filled with temptations, obstacles, frustrations, inner struggles and dilemmas that we all have to cope with, things which test our character. I think character is built according to how we deal with these as children.
To keep it clear who the reader should focus on, background characters should be kept relatively flat while main characters are round. The two categories of flat and round are not the only degrees to which a character can be developed; they are merely illustrations of the two extremes for how fleshed out a character is. Some characters should fall closer to the middle.