ENGL 2P13 Chapter 1: The Outlander Interview with the Author
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Where did you start with the book: read a lot of westerns and got excited about the genre itself, started with the language then did research- how do you make soap, do laundry etc What do you think about mary the widow: female characters are so static in western genres. She"s a bag of money that needs to be saved. She had to make her change to make the book realistic, because people change. Different body types of the characters: had to make different types of people, not all the same skin tone or body type make it realistic. The ghost having them: hallucinations can be very real. Historical material in the book: wrote the book sequentially. The book negotiates the anxiety of women in the western and their. The western as a genre is a violent genre real violence, she wanted to make it shocking. Her husband was bad but he didn"t deserve to have his life taken away.