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 Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject: question |
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| I was thinking about writing a story about the holocaust, focusing on one person and his experience (a la "My name is Asher Lev", Chaim Potok) but I don't know how to go about doing it, and what style to do it in. Should I just write it flat out reularly, should I do a series of flashbacks? Should I do it as a journal?(I thought about this one, but I think it'd be really hard)....any other ideas? |
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| Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Focusing on one person's experience might be a little flat - why don't you consider introducing a different viewpoint? I think it would be interesting to do a cross-viewpoint ie. Have one character a Nazi, and another a Jew, and have them linked in some manner before the beginnings of the Holocaust or whatever. I think it would make for a more interesting and original story if you have an original perspective. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: |
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I would suggest flat out regularly, and I'm a fan of one person stories. For instance, The Upstairs Room is one of my favorite stories. The narrator narrates the story as it's usually done, and reflects on how her life is changing. So... something like that.
But read a lot of nonfiction on that subject before.  I've read some fiction from that time which absolutely SUCKS. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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thanks both of you. The only problem with your idea Jack is 1. I was planning on loosely basing the main character of a freind of my grandmothers' who was from Poland, not Germany which would mean they wouldn't have been able to meet before the war, methinks, also, 2.I wouldn't know how to write it from the Nazi viewpoint. But I know a lot about the holocaust, I've read plenty of period literature, as well as literature ABOUT the period, Ive been to Auschwitz-Berkenau, and Majdanek, as well as the warsaw ghetto, etc.
Oh yeah, that brings me to another point: I wanted to somehow incorporate the Warsaw ghetto uprising. |
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