Creative Writing by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

Culture and character

In Part 1 you were invited to think of cultural associations as a way of remembering, and therefore as a source for creating and developing characters and scenarios for stories and poems. The culturally specific elements in Bad Blood are not just from one period and place but run across several historical eras, as do the generations of any family. For instance, in another extended portrait in Sage’s memoir, that of her best friend, Gail, there is much reference to the popular culture of the 1950s, including film and music. Sage writes of Gail:

Her eyes shone and she hummed a few bars of Paul Anka’s number one hit, ‘Diana’, about a mythological older woman, which was written when he was fourteen and inspired by falling in love with his babysitter. Against all the odds she’d discovered in Whitchurch a Paul Anka lookalike – same high cheekbones and black, black hair – and although this one’s eyes were blue and Paul’s were brown (he was ‘of Syrian extraction’), they were deep-set and inward-looking in just the right way. He was called Michael Price, a boy like a startled gazelle ...’

(Sage, 2000, p. 214)

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