Flowers In The Attic

Can a firstborn son and a firstborn daughter live happily ever after? Not according to the new book, The Birth Order Book of Love by William Cane. They'd be likely to experience what's known as "rank conflict," or the urge to tear each other limb by limb in a battle for control, which they're both used to having. Decrypting what order you're born in, and who it means you're meant to love, is this tome's goal.

So I put it to a quick test: While I half-buy the concept of birth order, I'm an older sister of sisters, and according to this my best match is the younger brother of sisters, a younger brother of brothers, an older brother of sisters or-okay, I might be into this, just because it sounds slightly lascivious-a male twin. Hmm, too bad I'm head over heels for a male only child. But, amazingly, I'm one of his "perfect" matches. Not sure how that works, but I did discover that reading your chapter is riveting, even if you don't agree. Enjoy a few birth order tidbits, handy for dropping at your next cocktail party, Sex conflict occurs when people with no opposite-sex siblings enter into relationships. They can be expected to experience difficulty understanding each other since they didn't grow up with opposite-sex peers.

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Flowers For Algernon

As has been indicated by writers and writing coaches, in a good story, characters create conflict; consequently, conflict creates drama. In addition, a story shows more depth if its characters go through changes. The question is: how can a writer go about showing the changes inside his characters during the trajectory of the story? Let us take a brief look at how some characters may go through a change in a story. If a story is written from the first person point of view, the character may show the workings of his mind through the narration of his feelings, or the change can be followed in a character's journal. In Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes, the main character, Charlie Gordon, keeps a journal of his progress throughout the story to let us follow the drastic change in his mental progress and decline. In a play, a character may show his inner change and his inner workings through asides and soliloquies.

The change can also be shown through the interaction of characters called confidantes. A confidante is someone in whom a character confides his inner turmoil, joys, and sorrows, thus revealing the gradual or abrupt change in his make-up. In The Door into Summer, Robert Heinlein's Dan Davis talks to his cat Pete, letting the reader see how his plans and feelings are changing. If a major character has his opposite, at the end of the story when that character has gone through a change, the reader finds that the character's understanding and values has neared to that of his opposite. An opposite in a story, sometimes called the foil, need not be the antagonist to the protagonist. A foil is someone whose character contrasts the character of the protagonist or any other important character to highlight the protagonist's or another important character's personality.

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