Monday, June 25, 2007

You spend several weeks getting to know someone that will be no more real to your life than santa is to the innocent, imaginable souls and then in the flip of the script, literally, they vanish. Dead. Gone, only remnant to that person who truly believed in the majesty. Maybe i am punk for this, but i call it heart....to weep, to fathom the ache of a prominent spirit. Someone who aspired, who accomplished so much, who willed their whole existence to be something positive, something meaningful.

And to see it taken hurts me. Im talking about real....these people feel so real to me & i wish i knew them. People like Dorian from I. Wrote. This. Song, the house. Mother from Three. Sides. To. Every. Story, and most recently Ty from Manhood: The. Longest. Moan. Its like i live through these character & their "fam" cause i have yet to experiece such life. I become proud of them. I feel them. And it just pains me to see them go. Whats the goal in killing off a character in a work of fiction so well produced. Like why must the climax or the pivotal point in the storyline be made from death? Thats the ultimate end, you know? But i suppose it wouldnt be so great if the climax wasnt so pivotal. Ijuswannaknow...why they gotta die? Dayne, this is one for you?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

They say 'only the good die young'. In Manhood The Longest Moan, the reader has to look deeper at what that character meant, what they did, and the choices they lived their lives by. I think there's usually some deeper lesson to be learned. In that character's case; maybe it's a metaphor: don't put off LIVING your life for some later date! Tomorrow is not promised.

At least that's what I got from it.

i am. said...

man...

i was definitely captured there.
especially in your feeling for the characters...

'i become proud of them'

damn!