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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Which literary character(s) most reminds you of China?
For me, it's Shift the ape and Puzzle the donkey in C. S. Lewis' book The Last Battle. The ape dresses in fine clothes and pretends to be a gentleman, but as another character in the book observes "He's just an ape in fine clothes." The ape also gets the simple minded donkey to dress up as Aslan the lion (Aslan is the real ruler of the world, and is a god-like figure). In this way, the ape tries to rule the world. I see Shift as the CCP, and Puzzle as China itself.
What other literary or movie characters remind you of China?
10 years 36 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
Walter Mitty: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" tells the story of the aging Walter Mitty on a trip into town with his overbearing wife, Mrs. Mitty. Walter is inept at many things; he is an absent-minded driver, he can't handle simple mechanical tasks, and he forgets things easily. What makes Walter exceptional is his imagination.
While Walter goes through a day of ordinary tasks and errands, he escapes into a series of romantic fantasies, each spurred on by some mundane reality. As he drives his car, he imagines he is commanding "a Navy hydroplane" through a terrible storm (1). When he rides past a hospital, he imagines he is a world-famous surgeon saving a VIP's life. When he hears a newsboy shouting about a trial, he imagines he is a crack shot being interrogated in the courtroom. As he waits for his wife to finish at the hairdresser's, Walter sees pictures of German plane and imagines he is a British pilot willing to sacrifice his life for his country. Lastly, as Mitty waits outside against a wall for his wife to buy something in a drugstore, he fantasizes that he is a bold and brave man about to be shot by a firing squad. The story ends with the inscrutable Walter Mitty awaiting this romantic death. (http://www.shmoop.com/walter-mitty/summary.html). You've got everyone pretending to be something they're not in order to avoid the reality of a banal and pointless existence - escaping into a fantasy life.