Sometimes authors use the character running away from action to get them into all their plot-lines. This grates on my nerves. I didn't realize why until I looked a bit more closely at tension and motive in narrative. And even then, until you mentioned the ways characters get moving, it didn't occur to me this was kind of the backward motive.
Something about the "leaving the old place for better" side of this I never thought about before is I don't identify much, and feel much more distant. Harry Potter, 8 Days of Luke, James and the Giant Peach--I didn't grow up with quite such awful adults in my life, so it feels foreign.
Frodo, Cimorene of Dealing with Dragons, characters who are forced into adventure, or are given reason to join it from a fairly common life connect with me more.
I do know what it's like to have life change dramatically for reasons I don't control--my family moved overseas when I was a teenager. I guess that's rather personal.
I wonder if people are divided a bit by their own background, which they find more familiar, which is more fascinating in a stranger-way.
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And even then, until you mentioned the ways characters get moving, it didn't occur to me this was kind of the backward motive.
Something about the "leaving the old place for better" side of this I never thought about before is I don't identify much, and feel much more distant. Harry Potter, 8 Days of Luke, James and the Giant Peach--I didn't grow up with quite such awful adults in my life, so it feels foreign.
Frodo, Cimorene of Dealing with Dragons, characters who are forced into adventure, or are given reason to join it from a fairly common life connect with me more.
I do know what it's like to have life change dramatically for reasons I don't control--my family moved overseas when I was a teenager. I guess that's rather personal.
I wonder if people are divided a bit by their own background, which they find more familiar, which is more fascinating in a stranger-way.