05-20-2014, 11:45 AM
I think it would be more like "I hate the old man in me". The house is almost symbolic of the person and the people being the characteristics of the person.
Developing the characters were specifically challenging. I tried to make the man seem like a hermit and isolated. But saying that "No one really knew him" is a little contradictory because I'd have to know a little about him to even talk about him. But at the same time it adds more to the "unknown" factor about the old man. I intend for the narrator to not like that old man part of him, but how could he not like him if he doesn't know him?
The lady was tough too. I tried to give her that paranoid persona with using the broom to scare away the bird. But that can spawn many different interpretations, in this case a witch. But I did do good on the last part of her stanza with the disease part. Her overthinking obscured her vision.
The teenager was easier. The household has a grandfather, a mother, and two sons. The narrator being the younger son(personifies pure love). There's a dad missing. The teenager's burdens were the burdens of his father; learning things that should've been taught to him and setting an example for his younger sibling.
The old man is what I call a "used to". He used to be sociable, loving, and kind. But now he's the total opposite. Maybe the narrator hates him for changing into what he is now.
Developing the characters were specifically challenging. I tried to make the man seem like a hermit and isolated. But saying that "No one really knew him" is a little contradictory because I'd have to know a little about him to even talk about him. But at the same time it adds more to the "unknown" factor about the old man. I intend for the narrator to not like that old man part of him, but how could he not like him if he doesn't know him?
The lady was tough too. I tried to give her that paranoid persona with using the broom to scare away the bird. But that can spawn many different interpretations, in this case a witch. But I did do good on the last part of her stanza with the disease part. Her overthinking obscured her vision.
The teenager was easier. The household has a grandfather, a mother, and two sons. The narrator being the younger son(personifies pure love). There's a dad missing. The teenager's burdens were the burdens of his father; learning things that should've been taught to him and setting an example for his younger sibling.
The old man is what I call a "used to". He used to be sociable, loving, and kind. But now he's the total opposite. Maybe the narrator hates him for changing into what he is now.