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October 8, 2010
PS Characters . . .
PS When it comes to characters and relationships that are interesting to me, I like the generational gaps that develop because of technology. A pre-teen hooked into the web and game boy (or whatever it is these days). A know-it-all kid always teaching his parents info because of what he read on the web. The difference between people building and playing with their hands: real craftsmen vs. everyone being able to do everything because we can all just learn it on youtube (as Todd mentioned). And also, the gap (which my father's blog mentions) between kids fiddling with things until they get it right versus their parents who sit down and read the manual from front to back.
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Your know-it-all child/grandchild in the one improvisation was a uniquely funny character, I thought. There's a very obvious running gag or two there - what do you think makes that kind of person tick?
ReplyDeleteHmmm, maybe it is the sort of person that is so 'hooked in' to technology that he lacks the ability to connect to people. So, while he truly enjoys learning and finding information, his desire among people is to be heard. Or, the desire to be helpful. Or both. He is sort of a one way street, lots of information going in, but simply does not have the capacity to get it back out. To communicate. Which, also could be a funny dynamic if another layer is simply that the grandparent can't hear very well. At all!
ReplyDeleteAnother thing is that perhaps he can "communicate" well with other kids who experience the same technological way of existing. For example, a bunch of kids who are always talking over each other, never leaving room for another to speak, BUT know exactly what each person is saying at all times and all of them are in fact having an engaged conversation. Listening and talking simultaneously. (My friend Rachel has twin aunts from Ireland that do this and it is totally amazing to witness!)
I love this, Elizabeth. Two ideas from this: the first is the person who won't speak, just can't connect in the moment, but keeps whipping out the perfect solution from their silence; the other is just a random thought. My dad insists that opera is the only storytelling format in which you can have two or more characters telling you different things simultaneously, and it still allows you to absorb it all. I love that joke, too. When two people are so carried away explaining something or responding to something that they talk simultaneously, without pause.
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