When I look at and think about how the main character in my book, Abe Lincoln, expresses himself, it really resonates a chord with me because Abe is prone to the meloncoly (which means, he tends to get really sad from time to time). This connects with me as I too tend to get sad from time to time. I can tell how Abe is expressing himself because most of the book has large excerts from sections of his "lost journals" where he kept records of how he felt or what was going through his mind at certain points in his life.
There is one place, on page 168, where Abe is writing his reflections and wondering on the fleeting existence of the human body. Part of his journal reads: "It is a strange thing how quickly the body dies. How fragile a force our presence is. In an instant the soul is gone - leaving an empty, insignificant vessel in its stead." This makes me think of the times, when at my saddest, I am prone to such depressing thoughts and will express myself in my journal using similiar feeling or with drawings of how I am feeling at the time. This also comes through in my writing when I am expressing those feelings in my poetry. This type of connection makes it easier for me to see why it is important for me to understand how the characters in my reading are expressing themselves and how it connects with my own personal ways of expression.
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