What character in movies or books could you most relate to? And why?

Soft*Silver · 03-25-2010, 10:47 AM

ok...I got it...
Jonathon Livingstone Seagull...

"If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice? " JLS

Greyson · 03-25-2010, 12:26 PM

There have been many books and/or movies that I have identified with the protagonist. I have identified with both the male and female characters.

Starting with my childhood memories there were two books and movies that touched me deeply. "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" and "Little Women." I identified with Mary Frances Nolan in A Tree Grows In Brooklyn and Jo March in Little Women.

Both of these characters were strong and creative. I was just a child but what I saw in them was some sort of message telling me that I was okay. There were other "Tom Boys" like me and we could and would thrive regardless of life circumstances and the opinions and ideas of others. (Below I have cut and pasted an analysis of the two characters from a site called "Spark Notes.")

Mary Frances Nolan - The protagonist of the novel. Francie is the daughter of second-generation Americans living in Brooklyn, New York in the early twentieth century. She is named after her father's dead brother's fiancée. Francie is poor, but bright, observant, and taken by the wonders of the world. She is a combination of her hard-working, practical mother and her imaginative, dreaming father. She has a great capacity to see beauty amidst material hardship. Growing up without luxury, and sometimes without friends, she loves to read, and creates new worlds through her writing.

Jo March
The main character of Little Women, Jo is an outspoken tomboy with a passion for writing. Her character is based in large part on Louisa May Alcott herself. Jo refuses Laurie’s offer of marriage, despite the fact that everyone assumes they will end up together. In the end, Jo gives up her writing and marries Professor Bhaer, which can be seen either as a domestic triumph or as a professional loss, since Jo loses her headstrong independence.

Because she displays good and bad traits in equal measure, Jo is a very unusual character for nineteenth-century didactic fiction. Jo’s bad traits—her rebelliousness, anger, and outspoken ways—do not make her unappealing; rather, they suggest her humanity. Jo is a likely precursor to a whole slew of lovably flawed heroes and heroines of children’s books, among them Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer.

julieisafemme · 03-25-2010, 12:47 PM

Dug from Up. He's a dog. He's pretty happy and up front about that. He's loyal, forgiving and loving.

Mandy by Julie Andrews. Julie Andrews wrote a few really wonderful children's books. Mandy had a secret life in her little discovered cottage. She cleaned it and decorated it and created a safe world of her own. She was an orphan in an orphanage and spent a lot of time alone reading and dreaming. She had to protect her secret life.

SuperFemme · 03-25-2010, 12:51 PM

Wednesday from The Addams Family.

Write14u · 03-25-2010, 01:02 PM

I can't say that any one character just totally resonated with me because I was such an avid reader growing up. But I really, really got into the Louis L'Amour characters. They were always these rough and tough loners who were gentlemanly around women and seemed to attract them even when they weren't trying. They were always honorable and fought the good fight, you know? I just always dug that. I guess if there was one that I thought totally fit that mold and exemplified L'Amour's writing, it was a character he brought out for a three-book series. Lance Killkenny.
Killkenny, I could relate to.

Apocalipstic · 03-25-2010, 01:09 PM

I used to think Bond, James Bond.

But as I age, I see that is not so good.

Soft*Silver · 03-25-2010, 01:23 PM

OH! OH! I got it!!!

Betty White in the Proposal.

I went to that movie with my daughter. When Betty was out in the woods, doing a smudging and elemental circle, my daughter turns to me and whispers, "thats you in a few years"

ROTF...and she is sooooo right!!!

03-25-2010, 10:47 AM	#1
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