Louis L’Amour and the Moral Imagination
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A while back on Facebook, we asked you what one character from a book you’d choose to be. The masses have spoken, and here’s what they chose. What about the rest of you?
Katie Gibson: I would probably be Samwise Gamgee from LotR. He’s loyal to a fault, kind (but wary and watchful), and never gives up.
Brian Wedge: Jim Hawkins—Treasure Island—adventure, pirates, treasure, and ships—who wouldn’t!
Deborah Follett: Jane Eyre, she chose to run away from her greatest temptation, and in following God’s moral law she retained her dignity and self-respect. In honoring Him, she gave up what she desired most, and He gave her that desire in it’s good and proper place in the end.
Blaine Salzman: Frederick Wentworth from Persuasion, because Anne Elliot is positively charming. ^_^ Downside: I wouldn’t care to be in the navy.
Gordon Jones: The White Rabbit because of that tall and quite small pill thing…
Alyssa Blount: Jo March because she had spirit and fortitude, tenderness and kindness, and grew to understand her gifts and put them to use selflessly.
Eugene King: Colonel Brandon, Sense & Sensibility … or Atticus Finch
Sally Zaengle: The Giving Tree — because I really don’t want to be the little boy
11 Comments
gllen
Hmmm… that’s a tough one.
Asher Lev from “My Name Is Asher Lev” strikes a definite chord for me.
He knows the inner & outer struggles of creativity, the intimate joys and the deep wells of sadness – but has the confidence and strength to speak honestly in his art.
And I’ve always loved Mr. Tumnus… (exploring the forest with a red woolen muffler and parcels under arm)
Jillian Hopper
Sara Cobbler from the Wingfeather Saga. She’s kind, she becomes brave, and she leaves a great impact by loving and serving those around her. Plus, who doesn’t want to command a super awesome kid-army!
Linda Rogers
@misslindaThis is tricky to answer. I first thought of Nia from the Wingfeather Saga, but of course I don’t want to have to suffer as much as she did. I just want her good qualities without all the difficulties. I doubt we are really all that alike in terms of personality, but I wish I were more like her.
Jason Kanz
Tom Bombadil from Fellowship of the Ring. He exuded joy, was deeply settled, and extraordinarily giving.
Allan Long
That’s an easy one. Sydney Carton
Kate Willis
@katewillisLucy Pevensie because she had faith even when others did not believe her and a deep relationship with Aslan.
Isabel
My husband said ‘Peter Pan’, who danced with Wendy (among their own progeny) and was often ‘desperately happy’.
I was trying to think about it and come up with a reasonably modest but still worthy ambition and my husband said don’t, go with your first instinct. So I had to say ‘Philosophy’ from Boethius’ Consolation. I love her self possessed ability to console and even inspire a shattered man with divine truth in hopeless circumstances.
Lisa Smith
Anne Shirley. She is very unlike me, sadly. I would love to have more of her sunny optimism and joy in all things, big and little.
Matt
Gabriel Syme, from Chesterton’s “The Man Who Was Thursday”
Mark Geil
@markgeilLinus van Pelt. Loyal, sincere, philosophical.
Shandon
@shandonPuddleglum…of course.
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