Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

It is obviously important that people feels real, which means that they should have both good and bad sides
(otherwise they will be uninteresting), and secondly, that the described characteristics match. These rules
may seem ridiculously simple, but they are not always followed. The first rule I see many violations of in
American action movies. There are heroes who are so talented that I just hope it will go to hell for them. The
latter rule, there are many violations of in literature. One common such is that the characters often argue
much more logical and lucid than a real person in the same situation would do. But it's probably something
that the authors choose in order to make it easy for the reader to follow the story. However, what is
completely unnecessary is to not adapt the wordings in the thoughts to the character. Below the thoughts in
the mind of a teenage thug, who in the story is described as stupid, unpredictable and completely without
compassion, is quoted:
"Lukas was clearly annoyed over his friend who took far too lightly on the problem and who always
considered himself to be the one who knew the best. What others thought, he did not often care about, unless
it happened to coincide with his own opinion, of course.
He had just a little over two months left of the school year on Wheleskolan, an establishment which he
regarded as a pure torture chamber. Then a fall semester and a spring one - and then working life."
From "Domination" by Björn Hellberg.
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