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Joyce Scarbrough
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Post Number:
346
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 06:43 am: |   |
Which literary character do you identify with the most?
Mine is Jo March from Little Women. I fell in love with that book in the third grade, mainly because of the kinship I felt with Jo. She loves to write, she's unpretentious, loyal to a fault, and (although I didn't know in third grade we would have this in common) she marries a man quite a bit older than she.
Toyce
True Blue Forever
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Gloria Marlow
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Post Number:
1233
Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 07:38 am: | |
Although when I was young, I was much, much more like Beth and identified more with her, I always felt a kinship to Jo as a writer. Even the first time I read it when I was about 8 or 9, I knew she and I had that in common.
Of all the books, I've ever read since then, Little Women remains my favorite. I am finally getting a niece (next week) and can't wait to give her a copy. My daughter loved it, too.
Although, I find characters as I read and think "that's just how I feel" or "she sounds just like me", none of them make the impression on me that the March sisters left.
Gloria |
Laurel Johnson
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Post Number:
3480
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 08:39 am: | |
I usually identify with men rather than women in books.
I identify with the lead character in THE HARVESTER by Gene Stratton Porter because we feel the same about the irreplaceable loss of natural habitat, natural healing from plants, and love in all its nuances.
I identify with Beck Sanow, the lead male character in my book The Alley of Wishes because we are joined in heart and spirit and see life much the same way. Love and friendship is a blessed gift, and unconditional love coupled with passion is a soothing balm.
I identify with Elizabeth Barrett Browning because her spirit and beliefs are in everything she wrote.
Interesting question. |
Bill Nelson
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
597
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 09:08 am: | |
Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird".
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Joyce Scarbrough
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Post Number:
347
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 09:34 am: | |
Gloria, we sound like we were separated at birth! I was also a lot like Beth as a child and loved her dearly. I've read Little Women 8 times to date, the last time when I read it aloud to my kids the summer they were 4, 8, & 12. (My son cried more when Beth died than the girls did.) It's also mentioned several times in True Blue Forever--how could I not?
Bill, I don't identify with Atticus, but I love him.
Toyce
True Blue Forever
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Read two chapters of Different Roads at http://www.authorsden.com/visit/mtr.asp?id=7737&loc=ShortStory
Read my interview at http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=authors.interview&interview_id=44
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Gloria Marlow
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Registered: 04-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 09:40 am: | |
It's mentioned in Flowers for Megan, too. 
I remember my mom telling me she was going to forbid me to read ever again if I didn't quit crying one summer. It seemed everything I read that summer was sad.
To forbid me to read was like forbidding other kids from playing. |
Laurel Johnson
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Post Number:
3483
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 12:36 pm: | |
Yes, Bill. I agree. To Kill a Mockingbird is a memorable novel and Atticus Finch one of the best characters ever written. It's hard to believe that Harper Lee wrote only one novel, but what a novel it was.
I must be hopelessly skewed, ladies. I also loved Little Women but could not relate to even one of the girls.
If I had to relate to any female in any book it would be Bone in Bastard out of Carolina, which was very good but pitiful. |
Joyce Scarbrough
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Post Number:
354
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 12:55 pm: | |
Laurel, I don't think you're skewed at all. There have been quite a few male characters I have felt a kinship with as well. It's a tribute to their creators and a testament to the unimportance of gender in such things.
Toyce
True Blue Forever
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Read two chapters of Different Roads at http://www.authorsden.com/visit/mtr.asp?id=7737&loc=ShortStory
Read my interview at http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=authors.interview&interview_id=44
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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
604
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 02:36 pm: | |
I related to the girl next door once, but that's not what you're looking for, I guess.
Laurel, I don't think you're skewed, a little whackly, maybe, but not skewed.
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Kevin Yarbrough
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Post Number:
487
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 02:58 pm: | |
Better watch that Bill. I related to the girl next door once and her husband didn't like it. Neither did her mom, dad, kids, aunt, minister, and dog. I think the dog hated it most of all, I still have the marks on my ankle to prove it. Sorry Toyce, but you know your dog doesn't like me
Who did I relate to most? The fat kid in Stephen King's "The Body" aka Stand by me.
KY |
Harry Simenon
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Post Number:
423
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 03:27 pm: | |
Homer's Odysseus. Old, but a great story. |
Joyce Scarbrough
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355
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, October 15, 2004 - 05:33 pm: | |
So, Harry, does that mean you have trouble finding your way home after wars?
Toyce
True Blue Forever
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Read two chapters of Different Roads at http://www.authorsden.com/visit/mtr.asp?id=7737&loc=ShortStory
Read my interview at http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=authors.interview&interview_id=44
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Post Number:
1668
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 02:15 am: | |
Actually, I related to the whole book and character in one of Michner's earlier books, The Fires of Spring, and it was written around a young man just waking up to his growing sexualtity and maturing as a man and person and his values. I think it was written in the early to mid 60s and I lost the book a long time ago, but have never been able to forget it or even find another copy of it.
Other than that, Ayn Rand woke up a in great kinship in me for the characters in Atlas Shrugged and FountainHead. And Dov Leon Uris's Exodus. Not the movie, although that was very good and well portrayed, but the book, which was much more riveting and in depth.
Claudia |
Joyce Scarbrough
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Post Number:
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Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 06:51 am: | |
Claudia, here's a link to used copies of The Fires of Spring on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449214702/qid=1097930901/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1257961-3886542?v=glance&s=books
They start at $1.75. I love looking for old books on there.
Toyce
True Blue Forever
Read the first chapter at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Read two chapters of Different Roads at http://www.authorsden.com/visit/mtr.asp?id=7737&loc=ShortStory
Read my interview at http://www.yabookscentral.com/cfusion/index.cfm?fuseAction=authors.interview&interview_id=44
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Steven Shrewsbury
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Post Number:
1053
Registered: 04-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 06:56 am: | |
I'd like to say Howard's CONAN, but he gets to act out all of the stuff I wish I could do, not that I do...so I will go with Soloman Kane, brooding religious fighter.
Evil crap just keeps creeping up on him and he deals with it as best he can.
www.stevenshrewsbury.com |
Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
609
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 08:39 am: | |
Claudia,
I concur with Exodus. I remember when I read that (I was a lot younger, of course) being greatly moved at the plight and struggle of the Jews. At the time I had no idea what they were up against. Great human pathos.
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Violet Towe
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Post Number:
371
Registered: 03-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 09:11 am: | |
Jane Eyre, small, plain and poor. But her story is a love story every woman would die a thousand deaths to live. I read this book written by Charlotte Brontė when I was in grade school, and read it every year until I was old enough to understand the meaning of the book.
I also loved 'The Yearling' written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. I supose one could say I identified more with characters who grew up poor, as I did. But those books stil linger in my mind just as if I read them yesterday.
Violet |
priceless1
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Post Number:
407
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 09:54 am: | |
"Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird".
(sigh) I knew I loved you, Bill. Atticus is great. I'm more like Scout, straightforward, inquisitive and always asking lots of questions.
Like Claudia, I resonate with Dagny in Atlas Shrugged. Her take charge attitude and strength is admirable, though her ideas of sex were a bit strange. Bill, no comments outta you!
Lynn
behlerpublications.com
lynnprice.net
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Bill Nelson
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Post Number:
611
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 10:22 am: | |
Okay, I won't comment!
But, I want you to appreciate how hard it is for me to keep my big mouth shut!
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priceless1
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Post Number:
409
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 10:55 am: | |
LOL. I appreciate it, Bill, and suspect that your mouth will eventually rule the day.
Lynn
behlerpublications.com
lynnprice.net
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Kevin Yarbrough
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Post Number:
498
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 12:32 pm: | |
Notice she didn't say me Bill, guess that means I can say something.....
KY |
Diana Hignutt
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Post Number:
233
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 12:14 pm: | |
I just noticed this. What a great idea for a post.
Okay, put me down for a Dagny Taggart too. Sometimes I feel like there are so few people who care or work hard in life. Sometimes I feel that most people are just skating through life without effort, filled with expectation, while I work because the works needs to be done. Yeah, Dagny Taggart.
Lestat resonnates with me as well. I read THE VAMPIRE LESTAT when I was alone in a hotel room in Montreal, recovering from one of my many trips there for surigcal complications. The passion of his soul, the depths of his loneliness, his disconnection with humanity, spoke to me very clearly when I read it.
I can identify with most characters in very well written books. I get submerged completely and lose myself...
diana |
Rita Gerlach (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 07:12 am: | |
Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, sensible, quick-witted, and capable of standing up for herself. She has a talent for getting around convention without insulting anyone, except for Mr. Darcy. Yet for all her strength of will she falls in love with a man who seems her opposite - or is he?
In my companion novels Thorns In Eden and The Everlasting Mountains, I felt so in touch with the female character Rebecah. Writing about her, was an emotional experience, and I would ache inside for days writing those scenes where Rebecah was in danger. Now, when I drive up route 15 through Frederick County, Maryland, or look out my back porch at the blue hills beyond the farmer's fields, I don't see the Catoctin Mountains the same way I used to. |
Scott F. Falkner
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Post Number:
40
Registered: 08-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 11:05 pm: | |
I'd have to say Jack Torrence from "The Shining".
Don't worry, though. As long as I don't get shut up in a hotel for six months, myself and my family should be just fine...
S.F. Falkner
www.scottfalkner.com |
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