From the community, a good Friday question. Who is your favorite character from literature? And why?
Question of the Day, Mar 11
From the community, a good Friday question. Who is your favorite character from literature? And why?
Tom Joad
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Aquaman.
Jeebus Son of God, for turning over the money changers tables .
Also John Galt , for going Galt.
Tyler Durden
Davey Crockett.
American spirit of the great outdoorsman.
@Mike or Stucky
QOTD suggestion…
If you have ever served in the military (or MIC) or do or ever have worked for the government, do you or do you not feel partially responsible for the torture committed or innocent (children?) lives taken by our government?
Kharn the Betrayer.
Cause sometimes, everybody must die.
Jesus, Mike and Stucky are fictional characters?
Conan the Barbarian, he knew the difference between friends and enemies and how to handle both.
Ender Wiggin. I cannot explain why.
All the Uncle Remus characters
The amazing lessons in human nature that are taught in those folktales are priceless.
Of course those stories are banned in the schools today because they’re racist.
Screwtape from the Screwtape letters… C S Lewis. In a weird way Screwtape reminds me of people in my past ( x wife) , present( Stucky ) and probably future( antichrist)
I would prefer not to answer, but if pressed, Bartleby the scrivener.
George Milton (Of Mice and Men) the ranch hand who had to kill his traveling partner, Lennie, to keep him from being tried for murder.
Or the Abominable Snow Rabbit.
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The underground man because he’s so fucked up, every declaration of his is fraught (hi, Maggie) with craziness. JFish comes close.
Too many too choose. But for now, I will choose 20th century American:
Holden Caulfield, “The Catcher in the Rye”.
He was discontented, cynical, honest, caustic, profane, liked to “rant” and a was loner by nature.
Yet, like the Robert Burns poem that inspired the novel, his ultimate desire was to prevent “children” from running off the cliff.
I thought it was a bawdy song about hoors.
Going back to 19th century literature, I also really liked Stubb from Moby Dick.
probably Foghorn Leghorn, but then there is this…..
Edmond Dantes, aka The Count of Monte Cristo. Dude has revenge / vigilante justice down to an art.
Paul Kersey in Death Wish.
My hero has always been a guy who cared about nothing that came his way till his last love enters his life and he has to show his true colours at the end.. and he had I don’t give a F@ck about anything attitude ….. Not exactly Lit but what the hell ….
Rick ….
Rick: I stick my neck out for *nobody*!
Ugarte: You despise me, don’t you?
Rick: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
Captain Renault: What in heaven’s name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We’re in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
Santiago the fisherman from The Old Man and the Sea because his struggle mirrors life which is often one step forward and two steps back.
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Bill the Cat from Bloom County. Ack! Thbbft!
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The Raven…………………never more.
“Pappy Jack” Holloway, sunstone prospector and principal protagonist in H. Beam Piper’s *Little Fuzzy* (1962; see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18137 ) et seq.
The reason? From the initial novel:
“What happened, Jack?” he asked, then glanced around, from Goldilocks to Kellogg to Borch to the pistol beside Borch’s body. “I get it. Last time anybody pulled a gun on you, they called it suicide.”
Gollum
LLPOH, I thought you’d pick Great Gatsby and Stucky would call Gulliver’s Travels. SSS would pick Napoleon Solo. I-S would pick Ralph Kramden.
EC – it was a close call between Gollum, the Hulk, or the Thing from the Fantastic 4 (“It’s cobberin’ time!” That is just great writing, seriously.) I am an aficionado of great literatature, and those are the best of the best.
Aslan.
Fictional characters do NOT make me cry … but, I did when Aslan died. (I was a teenager when I read it.)