Your girl's favorite book...Remember when we talked about this quote?
I think you were right about the characters being in war with the author...but the thing is, that no matter how much control the characters want over their lives their destiny is completely controlled by the author...like when Little Merced dies is just to prove that the person writing the story can end it just as quickly as it began. I guess the free will would be the parts that are blacked out but only to an extent... also that the point of the novel is that when it comes down to it that the characters are just people of paper...they can me altered, manipulated and erased...I feel like the story tries to make you believe that it's the character's story but the part "a story you don't own" makes me believe that it's Salvador's story with people on paper who are living through it... but they live in this world that he created and made them and the reader believe it's more real than it actually is.
Your girl's favorite book...Remember when we talked about this quote?
ReplyDeleteI think you were right about the characters being in war with the author...but the thing is, that no matter how much control the characters want over their lives their destiny is completely controlled by the author...like when Little Merced dies is just to prove that the person writing the story can end it just as quickly as it began. I guess the free will would be the parts that are blacked out but only to an extent... also that the point of the novel is that when it comes down to it that the characters are just people of paper...they can me altered, manipulated and erased...I feel like the story tries to make you believe that it's the character's story but the part "a story you don't own" makes me believe that it's Salvador's story with people on paper who are living through it... but they live in this world that he created and made them and the reader believe it's more real than it actually is.