To Kill a Pigeon

Whooo!


Well, I managed to get through To Kill a Mockingbird (at least the amount I was told to do - turns out that my teacher is not evil enough to make us read the whole thing). I wholeheartedly recommend the book to anyone, as it's great on its own, and for obsessive people like me I also recommend that you analyse the book and it's themes. It's extremely well put together and has some wonderfully fleshed-out characters - I didn't even notice at first because it's so wonderfully subtle, but Miss Caroline (the 1st Grade schoolteacher) has her own motivations and a fleshed-out personality, despite having a total of about four pages of space spent on her (so far, up to chapter six). It's something that has been making me put off writing myself, because at the moment I can't think of the story in a nuanced way - in fact, I can't think of the story as a story at all. I think of it more as the emotion it conveys, which is different from what I usually do (whack some stuff onto paper and hope it evolves).

Emotion is an important part of everything and I've been ignoring it - in music, in writing, in art. So I'm gonna try and incorporate it. Despite the stigma attached to anything with 'emotion' tacked onto the side of it, it forms an important part of everything we do. But thanks to the annoying whining of two generations of nu-metallers, emos and goths before them who keep on saying it as a buzzword in order to fit in to their counterculture clique, 'emotion' has gained the aforementioned stigma. It's a shame, because there is a VERY big difference between something that tries to be emotional and fails miserably (My Chemical Romance lyrics) and something that really IS emotional (various films, books and music). Hopefully it'll change one day.


Sraen out.