Writer's Block: I Can Relate
When I was a kid, I always identified with Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia because we were both the youngest and precocious and I wouldn't have been at all surprised to find a magical forest in the back of my wardrobe. In retrospect, I think there was more wishful thinking than actual similarities between us, but I still feel very protective of Lucy's character and have a soft spot for her.
The first time I read Harry Potter, when Ron tells Harry, "Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first," that totally stuck out to me, and I always felt like I could relate so much to that aspect of Ron's character, that frustration of always living in other people's shadows and not being taken seriously for yourself. Actually, Ron might be the fictional character I do identify with most: hates school, scrapes by but is lazy, has cooler friends, uses sarcasm as a defense mechanism, insecure ... but loyal, too. I would do almost anything for my friends and family. So yeah, Ron Weasley is definitely one for sure.
And now, to sound totally pretentious and emo, there is so much about the Tenth Doctor that I relate to, particularly in Series 3 and 4. "I'm always all right," and "They've all got someone else," really hit me hard. I think he genuinely wants to be happy, but then other factors and things ... I can't explain it, but there are so many times when I watch him and I just ... I just get what he's feeling. I just know.
There's bits of others, too. Edna from Chopin's The Awakening and Nora from Ibsen's A Doll House both wanting to break free from the boxes society wants to put them in, but not quite knowing how. Nora especially is awesome; I want to be her. Valancy from L. M. Montgomery's Blue Castle because I live in my imagination more than in proper reality. Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because I know so well how it feels to be displaced and to not really know what to do about it. Also, Sirius from Harry Potter for reasons I can't fully explain even to myself. I've just always felt so connected to him from the moment he hugged Lupin in the Shrieking Shack.
There's probably loads more I'm forgetting, but this is already pretty long, so I'll wrap it up for now.
The first time I read Harry Potter, when Ron tells Harry, "Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first," that totally stuck out to me, and I always felt like I could relate so much to that aspect of Ron's character, that frustration of always living in other people's shadows and not being taken seriously for yourself. Actually, Ron might be the fictional character I do identify with most: hates school, scrapes by but is lazy, has cooler friends, uses sarcasm as a defense mechanism, insecure ... but loyal, too. I would do almost anything for my friends and family. So yeah, Ron Weasley is definitely one for sure.
And now, to sound totally pretentious and emo, there is so much about the Tenth Doctor that I relate to, particularly in Series 3 and 4. "I'm always all right," and "They've all got someone else," really hit me hard. I think he genuinely wants to be happy, but then other factors and things ... I can't explain it, but there are so many times when I watch him and I just ... I just get what he's feeling. I just know.
There's bits of others, too. Edna from Chopin's The Awakening and Nora from Ibsen's A Doll House both wanting to break free from the boxes society wants to put them in, but not quite knowing how. Nora especially is awesome; I want to be her. Valancy from L. M. Montgomery's Blue Castle because I live in my imagination more than in proper reality. Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because I know so well how it feels to be displaced and to not really know what to do about it. Also, Sirius from Harry Potter for reasons I can't fully explain even to myself. I've just always felt so connected to him from the moment he hugged Lupin in the Shrieking Shack.
There's probably loads more I'm forgetting, but this is already pretty long, so I'll wrap it up for now.