if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? - Literacy Nerds

if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? - Literacy Nerds - tribe.net http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#c53c352d-e9f3-4874-9c31-d36cf0fd5281 The mistress of the orphanage in "Jane Eyre". Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:00:22 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#c53c352d-e9f3-4874-9c31-d36cf0fd5281 Canela, too hot for you 2009-10-02T17:00:22Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#974ae2b7-ea6e-44ca-819f-1f4df5029856 Hi Oscar, try some yoga and deep breathing, I heard it stops you from wanting to kill fiction characters Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:22:40 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#974ae2b7-ea6e-44ca-819f-1f4df5029856 Tania 2008-04-29T01:22:40Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#f7d8c7be-cbb6-4868-874b-43de5f7f146a Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights" - never have I despised a fictional character quite so much. Levin from "Anna Karenina" - pedantic, condescending, narcissistic. by the end, i was wishing he was going to be the one to throw himself under the train. Peyton from "Lie Down in Darkness" - she couldn't kill herself soon enough either. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:23:46 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#f7d8c7be-cbb6-4868-874b-43de5f7f146a Sean 2008-04-28T20:23:46Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#aea3ea52-b4aa-41a8-8397-7b15ffbf3ab1 You are a wonderful person, but those hobbets deserved wayyyyyyyyyyy worse for inflecting those crappy movies on the world, at least the book isn't on the tv every day, all day. Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:27:00 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#aea3ea52-b4aa-41a8-8397-7b15ffbf3ab1 Max 2008-04-28T11:27:00Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#3c8a82c9-1073-4d2a-b5a7-3e467ab30ab4 DITTO! Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:52:58 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#3c8a82c9-1073-4d2a-b5a7-3e467ab30ab4 Sarah 2008-03-20T22:52:58Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#cfa8a415-a215-4065-8595-fb34b9f8cd7d Natty Bumpo from Last of The Mohicans, then the entire damn series wouldn't exist. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:05:19 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#cfa8a415-a215-4065-8595-fb34b9f8cd7d Linsey 2008-02-05T19:05:19Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#6a558fed-87a9-4f8d-9e03-cd33e9c6f22c Everyone in Wuthering Heights, in fact i'd do it twice. Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:31:33 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#6a558fed-87a9-4f8d-9e03-cd33e9c6f22c Mike 2008-02-04T22:31:33Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#3df578d2-acc4-4fdb-9e0a-41a2e08404a0 Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird." He practically shits marble. I was tired of Shagpoke Whipple in Nathaniel West's "A Cool Million" the second I clapped eyes on him. He's supposed to be some kind of crackerbarrel archetypal American and all he affords is an example of West's fascinating paranoia about that vast land between the coasts. Pretty much any Heinlein "old man" character is going to be full of helium, but you take them out, there's no story. Jubal Harshaw in "Stranger in a Strange Land" is the best and most lovingly-detailed, though. Cathcart, Milo, Aarfy and the filthy old man in "Catch-22" all set my teeth on edge, but that's their whole point! The Houyhnhnms, the idealized horse-people trotted out at the end of "Gulliver's Travels." Swift's rebuke to the Yahoos is all very well and the race embodies every virtue in the dean's scheme of values. They're also very, very self-righteous and dull. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:27:02 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#3df578d2-acc4-4fdb-9e0a-41a2e08404a0 Rockstar 2008-01-30T11:27:02Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#5b6bd80b-7f09-4e2f-b711-edcb005c20f4 I second the motion Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:04:56 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#5b6bd80b-7f09-4e2f-b711-edcb005c20f4 $item.owner.firstName 2008-01-18T16:04:56Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#292f862e-9819-4e62-8dc5-f05c38e38f29 harry potter... Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:44:41 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#292f862e-9819-4e62-8dc5-f05c38e38f29 - 2007-12-30T22:44:41Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#1526a038-5a71-4852-99a4-9c80727f64e9 Ooof. That damned little white girl in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:32:33 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#1526a038-5a71-4852-99a4-9c80727f64e9 JM 2007-11-19T14:32:33Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#0093329e-0527-4fc8-a2e0-74384fac4331 Speaking of twits, I'd have killed off Justine from the Marquis de Sade's "Justine." He did it about a thousand or two pages after it should have happened (at the end of the SEQUEL to "Justine," if I remember correctly). She goes running from one monastery to another begging for help, and EVERY SINGLE TIME, she gets raped and brutalized by the monks. You'd think she'd have learned not to go throwing herself on complete strangers' charity (monks or not) after the first couple of times, but NO. Buck up and get yourself a job as a scullery made or a tavern wench, already! She was just so dumb, whiney-wailey, and helpless. Like I said, talk about twits!!! Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:29:45 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#0093329e-0527-4fc8-a2e0-74384fac4331 Rebecca 2007-10-27T08:29:45Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#aaa22155-47d9-45ec-a513-4df1334b7a25 Emma. What a twit she is! Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:37:09 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#aaa22155-47d9-45ec-a513-4df1334b7a25 Manda-B/ 2007-09-30T06:37:09Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#9b36b06e-c7b1-4c35-ba31-5dc302601fd1 The narrator of A Moveable Feast. But I guess he beat me to it. Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:53:24 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#9b36b06e-c7b1-4c35-ba31-5dc302601fd1 JM 2007-09-08T14:53:24Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#79331f0a-bf39-446d-8b62-cbc7015b63b7 What I'm curious about, Oscar FdJ, is that every named character on your list is a woman--or else the woman's husband. Can you think of female characters in literature that you _do_ like, or do you think that literature represents women in annoying ways, or.....? Me, I'd like to see just about everybody in Middle Earth die of an STD. I'd also like to impale Stephen Deadalus through the eye with a rusty fork. Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:26:59 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#79331f0a-bf39-446d-8b62-cbc7015b63b7 Shannon 2007-08-27T18:26:59Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#dd0b2674-bad7-4e1b-93a2-daffd6311434 Can I have the light glinting off the shaving mirror of "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan" and temporarily blinding the driver of a brewery dray who promptly runs over Leopold Bloom round about the bottom of page one of Ulysses? Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:20:16 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#dd0b2674-bad7-4e1b-93a2-daffd6311434 Miker 2007-08-27T18:20:16Z Re: if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#ebdbd242-509b-4b11-bb05-15c1e8b622d6 Right now I'm reading Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac for the first time, and I would definitely kill Lucien off. I suspect Balzac will do the deed for me ( no spoilers, please!) Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:12:35 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#ebdbd242-509b-4b11-bb05-15c1e8b622d6 lori 2007-08-21T04:12:35Z if you could kill off or get rid of any major character from any book/books/stories, who would you get rid of? http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#ef284394-f518-42e3-9180-ba8cfbbcb463 Well, I was thinking about this the other day and wanted to know what other people thought. Usually I hear people talking about characters that they really love and admire, so I wanted to know who were the characters that people really despised. Here are some of my picks: Daisy and Tom Buchanan from "The Great Gatsby" Charles and Lucie Darnay from "A Tale of Two Cities" Kitty Fane from "The Painted Veil" Rosemary Hoyt from "Tender is the Night" Fermina Daza from "Love in the Time of Cholera" pretty much everyone from "Our Town" pretty much everyone from "The Scarlet Letter" pretty much everyone from "Kristin Lavransdatter" except for Lavrans Jewel from "As I Lay Dying" Scarlett, Melanie, and Ashley from "Gone With the Wind" *I would name some people from Shakespeare but most of them die on their own* and there are some others too but that's just to get the thread started Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:30:36 GMT http://literacynerds.tribe.net/thread/dff6e2e1-338b-41dd-8d07-98b2ee624de4#ef284394-f518-42e3-9180-ba8cfbbcb463 Oscar_Francois_De_Jarjeyes 2007-08-21T00:30:36Z