Sprint: Four Characters Describe Brother Fratatelli
Know One Stone? No? Well, this might be hard to follow. I’m thinking about how badly the characters in that book are explained visually, how I don’t take opportunities to really go indepth with how characters look. Here then is a test text sample of how each of the major characters in One Stone would describe one of their own, Brother Fratarelli. He’s a priest, he’s nice, and he’s fat.
I am particularly keenly conscious of this last point because rereading the book I kind hammer on the fact he’s fat in some really pointless ways. Rafe in particular refers to his fatness in internal dialogue a lot, and I need to bore into why Rafe would do that.
Anyway, the simple idea I had at first was that of the four characters:
- Rafe sees class signifiers
- Aderyn sees weaknesses and objectively verifiable surrounding material
- Kivis sees emotional boundaries
- Fratarelli himself sees anxieties and fears
Here then!
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