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adorable · 03-25-2010, 10:32 AM

Houlden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye for sure!
"All morons hate it when you call them a moron."
~ Holden Caulfield
The Catcher in the Rye

There have been lots of books that have changed me. Really changed me. One of my favorites was The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. It changed how I thought about life and religion forever. It wasn't just one character - it was the whole book. Night, by Elie Wiesel was another book that did that for me too.

"A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell -- mouths mercy, and invented hell -- mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!"
~ Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

Then of course Lieutenant Jimmy Cross from The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Stephen Dedalus from Ulysses by James Joyce. And Maya Johnson from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

03-25-2010, 10:32 AM	#11
adorable Member How Do You Identify?: Sarcastically Preferred Pronoun?: She Relationship Status: Unavailable Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Home of the Yankee's Posts: 752 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 1,708 Thanked 2,644 Times in 590 Posts Rep Power: 12725119	Houlden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye for sure! "All morons hate it when you call them a moron." ~ Holden Caulfield The Catcher in the Rye There have been lots of books that have changed me. Really changed me. One of my favorites was The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain. It changed how I thought about life and religion forever. It wasn't just one character - it was the whole book. Night, by Elie Wiesel was another book that did that for me too. "A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave is angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell -- mouths mercy, and invented hell -- mouths Golden Rules and foregiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!" ~ Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger Then of course Lieutenant Jimmy Cross from The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. Stephen Dedalus from Ulysses by James Joyce. And Maya Johnson from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.