Christie at Whistling in the Dark is talking about her favorite character: Jo March. Jo March is my favorite second favorite character, second to, of course, Anne of Green Gables. Christie talks about stealing some of their magic, and I agree. We want part of their magic. That's why we dream, why we read, why we act, why we watch movies or plays or musicals.
I want to be Anne because I love her whimsy and her candor. I love the child who wasn't afraid and the woman who never lost her childlikeness. I love that she embraces life and always loves right where she is.
Let's start a club, a what-character-do-you-want-to-be club. It could be like Halloween, except better.
Who do you want to be?
Maybe that is the real power of The Secret. It encourages you to see positive coincidences in your life as trends, instead of writing them off as flukes.
Who else could a red headed, freckled, mischievious Canadian bookworm aspire to be??? I am ANNE all the way! Next to her, it was JO- I was going to run an orphanage for boys if I didn't end up marrying my own Gilbert Blythe. This was fun. I found you through CW Online.
Here from Whistling in the Dark
I'm one of those girls who didn't read many "girl" books. "Little House" the T.V. show bored me to pieces so I never tried the books. Ditto about Anne (though my mom read us the first one) and I never tried the intimidating width of Little Women.
I read mostly "boy" adventure books-- Farley's Black Stallion series and Kjelgaard's adventures. Most centered around dogs, but there was one called "Fire Hunter" with a character that was both strong and feminine. I think her name was Willow. Wow. Now I need to read that one again!
So either Willow, or Lucy or Polly from The Chronicles of Narnia series.
I think my choice is based on wishing to be more or other than I was. I didn't want to be a talkative/imaginative/creative character, because I was pretty much there already.
I was interested in autonomy and adventure, and that's what my favorite characters had.
My mind is chugging away trying to think of my favorite heroine - nothing is bubbling up out of the cauldron.
When I was little I wanted to be Trixie Belden.
I'm Pippi Longstocking all the way!!
You know, my daughter is just about the right age to appreciate her. I have a feeling we'll be reading that soon. I'll be sad if she doesn't love Pippi though.
THIS time, I'd pick Elizabeth Bennet. But I'd like to play every year so I could hit all my favorites (including Jo March and Anne Shirley and Scout and Jane Eyre and and and. . . )
I think every young bookworm gal had to love Jo. I wanted to BE Jo, but I thought it was a shame her Prof. Bhaer couldn't have been loaded. I wanted her to get a smart AND rich guy. :D Hey, I was a ghetto kid. Money was important!
I always remember the umbrella. Ahhhhh.
And as a middle-aged woman, I still think that Anne Shirley's life was magical--the island, Gilbert, such friendship. What a wonderful life.
Mir
What a fun idea! I think I'll stick with wanting to be Jo...I think Anne would be my next choice. (Of course, there's always that small part that would really love to be Nancy Drew, too, what with the great hair and the saving-the-day abilities.) Ok, I now feel a definite urge to throw a 'come-as-a-literary-figure' party...:)
I started a book club through my church. How fun would it be to throw that party with them!
I'm a big Nancy Drew fan myself. Have a set of ND books that were my mom's originally. The book I'm working on now--the main character, Marnie, wants to be Nancy Drew.
Ever since I read the book as a little, little girl, I've known that I was Jo. I GET her...a little odd, a little out of it, a little strange, but well-loved and loving life. Also, the whole writing thing...though a stint as Lady Cordelia Vorkosigan from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga wouldn't be bad either...but she's who I want to be and Jo is who I AM.
Truly? I wanted to be Katherine Tyler from "The Witch of Blackbird Pond". I loved her character - how she saves Hannah in the end and goes off with Nathanial.
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