I promised some sneak peeks,
so here are a few pieces from our fifth chapter, "Redemption."
Please hit REPLY with your thoughts and answers. :)
She was both, and he loved her...
Sadly, I started to see a different person. This person who I had lived with and loved my whole life began to guilt trip us at every turn. My playful, generous, and loving great-grandmother had become dimmed by her past, her pain, her fears, and her cognitive decline.
She became the manipulative Mother Gothel to our Rapunzel (Tangled). We knew she loved us, and we loved her, too. But when it came time to live our lives—to seek adventure and pave our own path—we became her villains.
As hard as it was to accept, she, too, had become an unexpected villain of my story. And I wanted to rewrite it.
~ Aaron
Redemption
What did you learn about good and evil, and heroes and villains, from your favorite childhood movies, tv series, and books?
I honestly cannot remember a story from my childhood in which I saw a compelling backstory for a villain like the one we saw in Maleficent, but I know that I at least saw a big spectrum of villainry (yes, it’s a new word). There were the pure evil villains like the Queen Grimhilde character in Snow White and The Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz; but there were also the (arguably) less destructive (and obviously terrified) tyrannical fathers in Footloose and Dirty Dancing and the vengeful souls in the soap operas I watched with my aunt over summer vacations.
But what struck me as I looked back at the list of my all-time favorite stories was the pattern of the villain being an elusive/deceptive dark force or institution and/or the idea of blindly conforming to that force/institution…
