My sister wasn't as a big fan, and I asked her, surprised, why she didn't like her. "She's always so desperate. Desperate to fight, desperate for Aragorn's love, just desperate. I just can't relate to her character."
The other day I read a ridiculous regency book about a girl who is so desperate to fly from her gilded cage she makes a terrible bargain with her mother and ends up deeply hurting herself and the boy she loves and finally just runs away. I enjoyed the story more or less but I just couldn't relate to the character she was just too desperate.
These two characters seem like all they see is walls, when in reality they have so many opportunities in front of them that they just can't see it.
Maybe I just live in a charmed life, but I just don't feel like I'm surrounded by walls. I don't feel caged. Do some people just look for the walls? or are they really there and I'm just blind to them?
I don't remember saying that. Glad you do :)
ReplyDeleteI just read a blog post from a friend who is leaving Saudia Arabia after 2 years. She loves living overseas and arabic. She was so excited to move there and it's been so hard for her since it's a country of legislative walls. It's fascinating and disheartening to read about it. I am so thankful for our charmed lives.