Sunday, August 5, 2007

Statement of intention

My intention for this story is to create a narrator who is unreliable in telling the story correctly.
I will do this by having my character named Tony, slowly loosing his mind over drugs. His voice will change from time to time though as he goes in and out of the power the LSD has on him, this will be shown by him in a hallucinogenic state, thinking he is in a totally different world that seems real and every crazy thing that is going on around him is perfectly normal even if he thinks he is talking to a pink mouse that is 8 foot tall and then will wake up with no idea were he is or what he has done and his voice will change back to normal. When he is sober his distinctive voice will seem paranoid but smart at the same time, by realizing how his mind is slowly crumbling away, he is smart because in the beginning he was a top median student (but then blew it) so he does have brains but is paranoid by the harmful effects of the drug. To add more stress to his life, it is set in Detroit U.S.A in the ghetto suburbs at present date, with him as a poor white man in a black community, barley getting by and blowing all of his extra dollars on more LSD making him seem scared and left out form time to time. The only thing that keeps him together and doesn’t make him seem like a complete loony is his friend and LSD provider David. When David is around Tony’s voice becomes a lot more calm and straight because of the probable fact that he is about to get more drugs and the other fact that the only person in the world who cares about him is standing right next to him.

1 comment:

CeeJay said...

This sounds like it will work very well - the changing of voice will really indicate the changes in your character's mind. I think you need to be a bit clearer about what language technigues you plan to use to convey this change - how will your character express himself? Will it be short sentences or long, rambling one? Will there be any slang? Will he have any particular phrases he uses? How will you show he's intelligent?
I think this will make a really interesting story!