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Chapter 11: ...More Than It's Gonna Hurt you: Concerning Violence
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Chapter 11: ...More Than It's Gonna Hurt you: Concerning Violence
Literary Violence goes far beyond it's physical aspect of two people battling it out.
- One aspect of this would be in a murder mystery.
- We tend to focus more on everything else instead of the murder.
- So instead of the murder being a high point, it is instead used to set up the plot and give depth.
- For example, in any mystery book the actual murder scene is brief, if even described. Instead whats explaied is the how and why
- So instead of the murder being a high point, it is instead used to set up the plot and give depth.
- We tend to focus more on everything else instead of the murder.
- Even when it IS two or more battling it out, often the actual fight is the least important part
- What IS important is the implication of how and why the fight happened.
- Take for example Harry Potter
- We gather through the series that before being "killed" by Harry, he was nigh unstopable.
- But we as readers don't care that he IS out murdering hundreds of innocents, but it's WHY he's able to do so
- We gather through the series that before being "killed" by Harry, he was nigh unstopable.
- Take for example Harry Potter
- What IS important is the implication of how and why the fight happened.
- One aspect of this would be in a murder mystery.