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Consider all of the novels that you've read. Out of every novel that you can think of, which character (preferably the protagonist) do you feel that you have a connection with? Which character do you feel represents who you are? And why?
| I'll leave a comment | 11 | |
| I honestly can't think of one | 5 | |
| too many to name | 9 |
either Hamlet or Raskolnikov from Crime And Punishment.
I know it sounds kinda creepy to say Raskolnikov. Don't know if you've read the book, but he's a really interesting character. I'm not criminally insane like he is, but I share his impulsiveness, thoughtfulness and bursts of altruism. The axe-murdering... that's one aspect of his personality I luckily don't relate to. ;)
I've heard of the book before. I remember that we read an essay in class about murder being justified and in the example essay the person used Raskolnikov and that book. He seems like Batman in a way, but that's as far as I know about him.
As for Hamlet, I saw the movie, and currently reading it. I don't like Shakespeare much, but I'm curious to know what is in him that resembles yourself?
I've never heard of him, what book is he from? And why do you relate to him?
I most relate to harry potter and I actually do have those features. When I was a kid I was a bit of a misfit. My parents always seem to love my sibling more and treated them better. I was always well behaved but people would pick on me. I was kind of quiet and kept to myself.
Despite the fact my sibling was a complete idiot, a brat, always messing everything up and yet never got in trouble. No matter what they did my parents believed they were perfect.
I tried so hard to be good for them but I was always told everything I did and liked was evil and I always was in trouble even when I did nothing wrong. If I did something I got no support, if they did the same thing my parents always encouraged them but not me. This sibling was also portly and I was always skinny like harry.
I always wished that something would take me away and I could be magical and told I was special. Just like harry potter. Least that is how I felt as a kid.
I always wished there was something more and something better I was meant for but I grow up and when you grow up you realize fairy tales are just that. There is nothing more and this is all there is and ever will be. Kind of sad really.
It's a great question but a really difficult one for me. I go through books like some people go through individual Pringles.
I really don't want to say Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye) despite feeling an instant connection with him when I read the book. Similarly K. (The Trial), a book so powerfully compelling, it affected my mental health. I identified strongly with Lee Scoresby (His Dark Materials) despite him being an American balloonist and me being an English acrophobe. Also Brutus (Julius Caesar).
However, the winner is Kilgore Trout (various Kurt Vonnegut novels). He's a minor sci-fi writer who has very few fans, but those he does have are ardent. He's also based on a real person (surname Sturgeon, hence Trout) who was also a sci-fi writer (he wrote some episodes of Star Trek). "Live long and prosper" was first coined by Sturgeon. My birthday and his deathday are the same day.
Greg in diary of a Wimpy kid (I know I'm too old be be reading kids books, but I love those books!)
The woman in "Second Class Citizen" ( I felt like she did when I was in Mauritius) and "LA Rue Case Negre" a book about the childhood of a little boy in Mauritanie.
In the book, "Tunes for a Small Harmonica", by Barbara Wersba, some aspects of the main character reminded me of myself. Most of the time It seems to be bit of a rarity for me to be able to relate to book characters,
Lisbeth Salander in Girl With the Dragon Tattoo because I'm weird and antisocial. I felt like I could relate to her because I hate when people try to get to know me; I think what I don't share with people is absolutely none of their business and I like to keep it that way. I completely hate talking in general. I hate when people think I'm weak, stupid, or incapable. I hate being helped. And if someone does me wrong I do whatever I can to get even.
Drizzt Do'Urden. Ranger of Mielikki, follower of Gwareon Windstrom.
He overcame adversity and a difficult past, fled his life to live as an outcast and despite belonging to a race that's feared and hated by the surface dwellers, became a legend. He depended on his convictions when there was nothing else. I relate to him and I admire him, reading those books when I was younger made me want to aspire to do great things..
Tooo many to name :) hmmmm...I would choose something I've read recently, since it would still be fresh in mind..so perhaps Sophie from Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle..At first I didn't feel very interested in that book because I've already seen the movie, but of course I got so into it, and somehow identified with Sophie :)
If I would pick a classic though, I would say Isabel Archer from Henry James' The Portrait of a Lady..I was even considering using her name as my username here :D
Since I was young I've felt close to Ana Ozores from "La Regenta" by Leopoldo Alas ClarÃn: no one ever approached me with a noble motive, my life was driven and I went from one obsessive interest to another in order to feel a void. Nowadays I can see me sharing some common characteristics with Winston Smith from 1984 (by George Orwell) and Ignatius O'Reilly from John Kennedy Toole's "A confederacy of dunces". Paranoid city!
I don't like who I'm becoming xD.