Now we are so far in the novels, we've seen many struggles about the characters' lives. Do these struggles relate to fitting in? Have you ever felt out of your element? Tell me a specific story about your struggles as person. Why was this situation meaningful to you?
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In a way the struggles my character goes through are personal, but they also pertain to him wanting to fit in. The fact that my character wants to speak to people to keep his mind busy, makes him want to fit in. Not many will open up to another if they feel they don't fit with that person's mind frame. I have felt out of my element when I moved here to Chicago and it meant a lot because I am beginning to become used to it. It means a lot to me that I can have the ability to move out of my zone to make something out of myself.
My character goes through a tough struggle. He wants to understand why his father wanted him to be something he really not. The fact that the father wants my character to put himself in his shoes, my character was often stressed and distant away from things his father expected of him. I've often felt out of my element at school to fit in with many groups that wasn't in their right stage of mind (so I say troublmakers). This is meaningful to me because I realize that there is always a group that wouldn't have me feel less of myself but more as a strong person and thinker to allow me to fit n perfectly.
My character is often dealing with people struggling to fit in. People who feel like outcasts. This reminds me of math class back in high school. I don't know why but I just didn't get it. I was always in a lower math with younger classmen. This would always be a little embarassing and made me feel like an outcast. All my friends were in a higher math then me and would always give me shit about it.
The struggles of the characters in Stranger Than Fiction are finding themselves, and and trying to prove themselves.
I always feel out of element. especially with my family. I am the black sheep of my family. Everyone is really smart. They all pretty much go to like iv league schools, to be doctors or scientists and laywers. I have always been interested in art, thats it. I am not really smart and don't always try to excel to the best of my abilities. I'm usually all by myself in family gatherings even if i try to talk to my cousins i get shut down. I've learned to deal with the fact I'm different. I don't think they're better than me just cause they're smarter, but I am better than them at something they are not and may not understand.
samantha,
is it helping to read about people finding other people like them or to think that college, an art college, might become a new community for you?
Most of the time I feel out of my element. Most of my life I've been a loner. I have a hard time expressing myself. Because of that it seems that people have a hard time identifing with me. I am faceless. I can walk through famillar halls and not be reconized.
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