Post by Katie on Feb 24, 2009 18:15:26 GMT -5
Nope, no theme songs. But they all do tend to have certain themes/ideas, symbols/motifs, and images attached to them.
For example, Marcus's main issue right now is his mixed ancestry. He embodies the conflict between a person's genes and their choices; how much a person is determined by factors out of their hands and how much control can a person exert over who their identity and destiny?
In a similar vein, because Ghost can't remember who he is, he's in the middle of the ultimate identity crisis, just as we are all trying to figure out who we are. Ironically for Ghost, the past he cannot remember is ever present, just as we are all shaped by our experiences.
Will is fairly normal (probably the only one of my characters who even comes close to being normal). He's just the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's an everyman who gets sucked into absurd circumstances. I think you see that a lot in the Rabbit Hole plot.
Erin is also having some conflict with her identity. She's going to have to figure out who she is and what it means to be free before she can do anything else -- like have a romantic relationship with Marcus. I think that's true for all young women in their teens and early twenties, who are testing their wings. I think a girl need to know who she is first before she gets entangled with a guy. If she has no sense of identity and worth in and of her self, she runs the risk of taking on the identity that she thinks the guy wants her to be, but may not necessarily be who she should be.
Oh and Jack? He has an extreme end-justifies-the-means way of operating. He also has a pack wolf's mentality: survival at all cost, the pack above all else, no one outside the pack is his concern. We'll see how that works out for him. He's also the one who sold his soul to the devil. 100 million cred -- that was his price. (What's your's?) Faustian bargain archetype, and all that. The question you're going to see him answer is "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul in the process?" Maybe there's redemption for Jack, maybe there's not. We'll see.
For example, Marcus's main issue right now is his mixed ancestry. He embodies the conflict between a person's genes and their choices; how much a person is determined by factors out of their hands and how much control can a person exert over who their identity and destiny?
In a similar vein, because Ghost can't remember who he is, he's in the middle of the ultimate identity crisis, just as we are all trying to figure out who we are. Ironically for Ghost, the past he cannot remember is ever present, just as we are all shaped by our experiences.
Will is fairly normal (probably the only one of my characters who even comes close to being normal). He's just the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's an everyman who gets sucked into absurd circumstances. I think you see that a lot in the Rabbit Hole plot.
Erin is also having some conflict with her identity. She's going to have to figure out who she is and what it means to be free before she can do anything else -- like have a romantic relationship with Marcus. I think that's true for all young women in their teens and early twenties, who are testing their wings. I think a girl need to know who she is first before she gets entangled with a guy. If she has no sense of identity and worth in and of her self, she runs the risk of taking on the identity that she thinks the guy wants her to be, but may not necessarily be who she should be.
Oh and Jack? He has an extreme end-justifies-the-means way of operating. He also has a pack wolf's mentality: survival at all cost, the pack above all else, no one outside the pack is his concern. We'll see how that works out for him. He's also the one who sold his soul to the devil. 100 million cred -- that was his price. (What's your's?) Faustian bargain archetype, and all that. The question you're going to see him answer is "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his soul in the process?" Maybe there's redemption for Jack, maybe there's not. We'll see.