Thoughts on Dialect/Male Characters
1) Something I've noticed that Rowling does in both the HP series and The Casual Vacancy, is to try and capture regional accents. This is most obvious with Terri: "I di'n' - I never...E's fine." What are people's thoughts on this? Do you find it effective/distracting etc?
2) This passage also stood out to me "Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrassment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses" (74). One theme I've noticed that runs through the book is this idea of the "measure of a man." We've got Barry, Fats' awful wife beating dad Cubby, & Gavin. Barry's goodness stands in stark contrast to these other men sort of echoing the latter part of the passage above. Anyone else have thoughts about the male characters in this book?
Em
2) This passage also stood out to me "Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrassment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses" (74). One theme I've noticed that runs through the book is this idea of the "measure of a man." We've got Barry, Fats' awful wife beating dad Cubby, & Gavin. Barry's goodness stands in stark contrast to these other men sort of echoing the latter part of the passage above. Anyone else have thoughts about the male characters in this book?
Em
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