CRWR 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Elmore Leonard
5 May 2016
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Absurdist fiction: early 20th century, nothing happens, waiting for godot. Know the rules well, so you can break them. - dalai lama. Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. - elmore leonard. The reader doesn"t care what"s in your head. Character: a person in a narrative work of art such as a novel, play, lm, etc. Plot: character"s desire is the source of plot or. Theme: the journey that the protagonists goes on, and how he is changed by the journey give us insights to theme. Have something at stake, something they"re struggling with. They change, evolve in some way, the action affects them. Not necessarily likeable, but we do care about what happens to them. They make things happen to the main character to move the action of the story along. We"re interested in their perspective but more because of how it affects our main character.
