if you could be one character in a book...?

Question

What character in a book, movie or play would you be if it were possible?

also, explain why

Answer 1

Gemma from a great and terrible beauty. Because she gets to go on a lot of adventures and she can explore the realms!!

Answer 2

I love the earths children books by Jean M. Auel. They are set in pre history, and Ms. Auel is an excellent author who has researched prehistoric lives thoroughly. The books chronical the life of the character Ayla who has an amazing life as a independant cavewoman.I think that living the way these people did would be very interesting, and we wouldn't have to worry about paying taxes. Of course, being eaten by a cave lion would have been a concern, but at least if we had to do actual physical labor to survive the vast majority of the population would not be so overweight as they are now. I should think hunting mamoths would be far more interesting than watching Desperate Housewives. (Blech!)

Answer 3

It's a good question. The trouble is I don't want to be just one character, I want to be able to switch around! After all, if you think about it, we could all be a character in a book or movie... the reason we'd like to be other characters is because we're sort of "stuck" with our current one!

I'd love to be Huck Finn for one day on the river; Professor McGonagal for a few weeks at Hogwarts (I picked her and not Hermione because she's already passed her N.E.W.T.s and won't "graduate"); Morgaine in the "Mists of Avalon" here and there; Claire Randall in "Outlander"; Jill Pole in the "Narnia" books... I could go on and on.

I guess the gift of books is that I do get to be those people while I'm reading!

Answer 4

This was a toughie for me because I created both characters I'd choose. Queen Fara (The Manhunter, Search for the Sun, and City of the Sun) is a wonderful queen who has the undying loyalty of her court. The one thing she does not have is the man she most admires for a husband.

Lady Nan York is less important overall. She isn't a queen, but she runs a very large household, has six outstanding sons and 4 outstanding daughters. In addition, she's a lady in waiting and friend to Queen Fara. More importantly, she is married to the man the queen admires--a man all of Gardon admires for his honor and integrity. She accepts that her husband is loyal to the Queen, but she shares that loyalty.

Yup, if I had to choose between being Queen Fara or Lady Nan, it would be Lady Nan. The queen, for all her power, cannot have what Nan has.

Answer 5

My favorite character is actually a boy, so...

I adore Eugenides, the main character in The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, and The King of Attolia, all by Megan Whalen Turner.
The boy has such a spunk and quirk about him. He's part of the royal family in his country and is labeled as the Queen's Thief. He's so human, so real, that I absolutely adore the books, even though they're YA.

Answer 6

If I could be any female from fiction I would be buffy the Vampire Slayer. She rocks! she's whitty and fashionalbe while kicking vampire tail!

If I could be any male from fiction I would be Howling Mad Murdock of 80 TV show A-Team fame. He was hilarious and being a pilot would come in handy the next time I had to evade and escape Lynch or Dekker!

Answer 7

Just one? Wow, I just went through so many book characters in my head, from books I read when I was young to those I'm reading now at 32.

I'd still have to say...Pippi Longstocking.

Answer 8

Massie Block from the Clique. Because she lives a perfect life; she's rich, smart, and knows how to get things.

Answer 9

John Clark from the Tom Clancy series.
What a bad ***.

Answer 10

Morgaine from "The Mists of Avalon". She's so clever, so devious, so focused and so powerful; such a fascinating creature.