Mango-Shaped+Space+Characters

=Characters = The **Background** represents the use and importance of color in the story, and the varying personalities and how they mesh together throughout the book.

The **Placement of Characters** represents many things. Mia is in the center because the story centers around her, she is the main main character, in a way. She is also in the epicenter of the colors of the background. Adam and Roger are on opposite sides of her because they are both Mia's "love interests" in a way. Jenna and Mango are on opposite sides because they are like two sides of the same coin: Mia's human best friend and Mia's cat best friend. Roger and Mango are both in the area where the color begins to fade, but for different reasons. Mango is there because his own personal story fades out just before the end of the book, and Roger is there because color in itself is invisible to him because of his color-blindness.

(NOTE: There was not a good selection of colors in Paint, so these colors are as close as we could get them to the ones we planned. The following explanations are for the colors we planned to use.) __**Characters and descriptions:**__ The characters we decided to represent for this project were Mia, Adam, Roger, Jenna, and Mango.
 * Mia** is the reddish-orange triangle. The reddish-orange color represents uncertainty (it isn't really either red or orange), because Mia is uncertain about herself (whether or not she is crazy, and then how she feels about her synesthesia). The red part of the color represents that she can get rebellious sometimes (not telling her parents about the accupuncture, not really working on the project) and that she sometimes gets angry for illogical reasons (with Roger for making her work on the project when she didn't really want to, with herself for "killing Mango"). The orange represents that she can also be warm and affectionate (towards Mango, towards her family sometimes).
 * Adam** is the grey rounded-corner rectangle shape. The grey color represents the fact that he seems "cool" but has a lack of real emotions/sympathy (not caring when Mango died). The rounded-corner rectangle shape represents that (mostly to Mia) he seems new and different, but he is really just kind of shallow with a few interesting differences (his synesthesia) from an average person. It also represents that he seems straightforward but sometimes does something that might throw you off (offering Mia a fake doctor's note for the acupuncture).
 * Roger** is the greenish-blueish (turned) square. The greenish-blueish color represents uncertainty, but not his own uncertainty. It represents Mia's (and therefore the reader's) uncertainty about what he is really like. It also represents that he has a relatively calm personality (the blue), but that he can get agitated or excited about certain things (the green... how he called Mia, slightly freaked out, about the project). The (turned) square represents that he likes things to be even and work with each other (how he acted with the project), but doesn't really mind changing the rules a bit in certain cases (not questioning why Mia didn't have her parent's permission for the acupuncture, covering for her).
 * Jenna** is the light purple heart. The light purple represents that she is usually dependable, but that she is sometimes a little odd (mentioning Mia's colors). The light shade of purple represents that she can be sensitive. The heart shape represents the sensitivity as well. It also represents that she is loyal (to Mia, to her mother's memory).
 * Mango** (we are aware that cats are not generally characers, but Mango is important enough to the story to be an exception) is the yellow-orange circle. The mixture of yellow and orange represents the percieved mixture of Mia's grandfather's soul and Mango's cat-soul. The colors also represent things seperately: The yellow of the yellow-orange represents that he has a lovable personality, and that he is relatively relaxed. The orange represents his closeness to Mia (she also has orange) and that he can also be warm and affectionate.