What book character played a major role in your childhood?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! You should think of it as a major character-building exercise.
. . .here are my thoughts.
What book character played a major role in your childhood?
I’ve never been in a book club. Wait … I take that back. I was in Catechism for two years in middle school. Catechism is basically a multi-year book club where you don’t get to enjoy cocktails while gabbing about what you read. The wine comes only after two years of study and a verbal test before the congregation. Even then, it’s just a single sip every Sunday. And it’s non-alcoholic! Various sections of the Bible are assigned as homework. You learn about personalities, needs, motivations, and flaws of many characters—especially the character who played a major role in my childhood: Jesus. We memorized a bunch of famous verses so we could, I don’t know, someday answer a Jeopardy! question. Or, I guess, question a Jeopardy! answer. And for some God-forsaken reason, I committed the order of every book of the Bible to memory. I still memorize chapter titles of most novels I read: 1, 2, 3, etc. But, come on, two years studying a single book!? Youths indoctrinated by Catechism should be much superior readers to non-pious youngsters. No word on which group is more prone to alcoholism.