Part III: We left off here:
“The problem was the house. Now, the house becomes a main character in this real life story.”
If I were writing a book about my dad and his family (which I’m not), I could develop this “main character”, the house, beyond the details I’ve been given. I’m thinking of houses as characters in literature.
I think of the professor’s house in C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Or, there’s 221B Baker Street in London, the “home” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle creates for his character, Sherlock Holmes. Last summer, my first daughter visited a place in London, a museum, actually designed to match Doyle’s descriptions of Holme’s apartment! Continue reading
Journey North Character 