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Question

I'm writing a story and in the start, the main character loses his eye. But I'm not sure what to say about how he actually loses his eye. Can someone give me some creative and GRUSOME ideas??

Answer 1

He loses the eye as a kid. He's fishing with his dad, and one time his dad swings back to cast and doesn't see the kid. So the hook get caught in his eye. And it's a barbed hook, so it won't come out. Dad tries desperately to find a way to get the hook out, but Junior squirms and thrashes. Finally, after quite some time, the boy runs away, But his dad forgot to cut the line, so the hook is still attached. Dad can only watch in horror as the line pays out. Suddenly it snags, and the hook, with the eye still attached is yanked from the boys head. Now the eyeball is dangling on the boys face and the father is forced to cut the optic nerve to remove the destroyed eyeball.

Answer 2

He could be having good fun with other people until he loses his eye...then it's no fun, hence the saying, "It's all in good fun until someone loses an eye."

They could be playing Trivial Pursuit and he misses a question so he slams his head on the table in frustration and gets pie in the eye. He would have just scratched his cornea and his eye would have been fine except that his friend's kid was playing with the pie pieces the night before and has dyssentary and never washes his hands. Now the guy loses his eye because of a nasty pussing infection.

Answer 3

hmm firstly you might want to plan the who, what,when and how things and what genre it is but here are some ideas -
he's mentally disturbed and poked it out himself
he was attacked by a vicious animal e.g a grizzly which clawed his eye out
he lost it in a gruesome battle - e.g like in 300 if you've seen it
he was attacked by someone because he murdered their hamster - oops did I say hamster i meant friend
he fell off a 6 story building and landed on a spikey fence and his eye got spiked
he was hiking up a mountain and his pick axe thing - wha\tever it is u use to climb , slipped and landed in his eye - lol, you could start the story from him trying to get down mount everest with one eye and then there is an avalanche or whatever and e.t.c

it's your story so remeber you can think up abosolutely anything - i mean he could be from another solar system . . . .

Answer 4

You could read Micheal Morcock's Prince Corum series - in the first book, Knight of the Swords, the main character loses an eye in gruesome circumstances. Also, Roger Zelany's Princes in Amber series has the main character losing both eyes.

Mark
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Answer 5

His eye left its socket with little resistance. The sound was not the dripping suction of film but rather the sound of paper being torn from a notebook. This sound shocked him almost more than the violence of the disfiguration. Real life was often a disappointment, he thought. He griped his face, and the last thing he remembered before blacking out was the feeling of open emptiness as the wind blew into the voided space above his nose.

Answer 6

Maybe he's writing a check and sneezes with the pen in his hand and jabs his own eye. Or he could trip and fall on a rake. Or he could walk into a nail protruding from a board. He could also pick up a knitting needle (for God knows what reason, maybe it belonged to the mother or aunt he hated as a kid) and anyway...he trips and "sticks a needle in his eye"...you could really play off of that unfortunate accident. Good luck!

Answer 7

What kind of story? Fantasy? Thriller? Science Fiction? Literature?

That would play a HUGE part in the losing of one's eye.

Some general ones, somebody thumbs his eye out, or, he could be near an explosion and a chunk of masonry hits his eye, he might fall and land on an exposed nail or other sharp object. Perhaps in a fit of insanity he removes his own eye, someone could attack him and he loses it, an animal might be responsible.

There are a lot of ways you can go, but it'd be easier if we knew the type of book.

Answer 8

Have you done a storyboard or are you just writing willie nillie.

He lost his eye in a child hood accident. Playing with brother a arrow went through it.
Born with a fatal disease.
shrapnel operation, unsuccessful.
Fell from a three story building onto a metal pole.
He sneezed so hard, eyelids unable close, in this event one of his eyes popped out.

Answer 9

Hi! I am a writer myself but I will let you have my experience from years ago.
I witnessed a young man on a motor bike being hit by a car. The next moment he was in convulsions on the road and he had lost an eye. Apparently the handlebar pierced into his eye socket.

Answer 10

Pecked out by a bird, botched eye surgery while playing doctor with other children pretending to be surgeons, tortured with a dental pick, mistook acid for visine, someone took it out to serve as garnish in a meal, parasitic worms dined on it from the inside out or having his/her head squished in an accident popping it out from the pressure.