Lara Zuberi's Blog - Posts Tagged "protagonist"
The autobiographical aspect of fiction
Readers often question the workings of a writer's mind and if they feel that a fictional story is based on a true experience despite disclaimers, it is a victory for the writer.
In The Lost Pearl, there is a tiny part of me in Sana, the protagonist. On the whole, I am very different from her, I think. Her character is shaped by her misfortunes in her early life, an experience that is luckily vastly different from mine. She is an emotional truth seeker who has a strong bond with her family and culture; there we are similar. She is rebellious, blunt and courageous; there we are different. There is a little of me in Sana, but there is more of me perhaps in her mother, who is a conformist, her aunt who is a nurturer, and her brother who decides early in his life to pursue the path of medicine.
Regardless of the differences between us, Sana Shah has, during this journey become real for me and I do think of her almost as if she were my sister.
In The Lost Pearl, there is a tiny part of me in Sana, the protagonist. On the whole, I am very different from her, I think. Her character is shaped by her misfortunes in her early life, an experience that is luckily vastly different from mine. She is an emotional truth seeker who has a strong bond with her family and culture; there we are similar. She is rebellious, blunt and courageous; there we are different. There is a little of me in Sana, but there is more of me perhaps in her mother, who is a conformist, her aunt who is a nurturer, and her brother who decides early in his life to pursue the path of medicine.
Regardless of the differences between us, Sana Shah has, during this journey become real for me and I do think of her almost as if she were my sister.
