Ava Taylor
Age: 20 years-old
Birthdate: October 1st
Hometown: Kingsland, Georgia
Current Residence(s): 98 Breeze Lane, Kingland, Georgia / Student Dormitory at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee and 120 Rainbow Road, Mountain City, Tennessee
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Summary:
20-year old native of the small, coastal Kingsland, Georgia. Ava is on a full academic scholarship to the prestigious Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is anticipating continuing with English Literary studies for her junior year in the fall. Ava is responsible and has grown up in a sheltered environment.
For the summer, she is staying with her uncle, Johnson County Sherriff Ben Taylor over the summer, both to remove the burden of her care from her financially struggling parents, but also to work for Reed’s Supply, a job arranged for her by her uncle. She is just visiting the small town of Mountain City, Tennessee for the summer.
The below information is an accumulative of previous posts, placed here by request for those readers that do not visit the Black and White thread. A true character breakdown and further analysis will be updated when available. Black and White Extras from the original are still available, however they should be taken with a grain of salt as critical components are fine-tuned and changed.
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Ava’s Chapter Themes
Below are the chapter themes and quotes for each written chapter. As one can see, the novel will be re-worked to combine the shorter, earlier chapters together so that the novel rounds out about 10K words per chapter. I am keeping them all thematically linked.
Chapter Two: Home
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
-Charles Dickens
Chapter 5: Assumptions
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- Henry David Thoreau
Chapter Eight: Jason
A man’s worth can be regarded by how that man is deemed in the eyes of his fellow men, or more strictly, the light in which they regard him in every way. This is shown by their opinion of him; and their opinion is in its turn manifested by the esteem in which he is held, and by his honour and reputation.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Chapter Eleven: Infatuation
It is quite possible for friendship, without any admixture of sexual love, to exist between two young, good-looking people of different sex, if there is perfect fitness of temperament and intellectual capacity.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Chapter Twelve: Philosophy
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
- Jane Austen
Chapter Sixteen: Love
In that book which is
My memory . . .
On the first page
That is the chapter when
I first met you
Appear the words . . .
Here begins a new life
- La Vita Nuova, Dante Alighieri
Chapter Twenty: Heartache and Courage
Why did you give no hint that night
That quickly after the morrow’s dawn,
And calmly, as if indifferent quite,
You would close your term here, up and be gone
Where I could not follow
With wing of swallow
To gain one glimpse of you ever anon!
Never to bid good-bye
Or lip me the softest call,
Or utter a wish for a word, while I
Saw morning harden upon the wall,
Unmoved, unknowing
That your great going
Had place that moment, and altered all.
- The Going by Thomas Hardy
Chapter Twenty-Three: Resignation
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’
Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you’
- Eric Fromm
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