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looking for book with an interesting female character

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adi1000

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i am looking for a short book that has a interesting female lead character, preferably being a bit sluty. oh and the further back the book is set the more help it will be.
 
that Lolita sounds interesting but i don't really wanna be doing a piece of work about phedophilia (sp?), i have to reinvent a character from a piece of western literature and bring them into the present, for example take romeo and juliet if i chose them as characters i would have to reinvent them as like say living in ireland and one family is Protestant and the other is catholic, but i want a more interesting character that is involved in drugs, sex, gangs and is female but i cant find a book like that.
 
adi1000 said:
i am looking for a short book that has a interesting female lead character, preferably being a bit sluty. oh and the further back the book is set the more help it will be.
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Well, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe goes back to the 1700s, when it was written, but it isn't short. On the upside, she was pretty slutty. It was also a surprisingly entertaining book, as I recall, for something written two hundred years ago. Moll was quite the scamp.
 
adi1000 said:
i have to reinvent a character from a piece of western literature and bring them into the present, for example take romeo and juliet if i chose them as characters i would have to reinvent them as like say living in ireland and one family is Protestant and the other is catholic...
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Threads by Nell Gavin does that, but uses reincarnation to put Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in different centuries and different lifetimes. The modern day lifetime is introduced, but not developed. Maybe it would give you a starting point.
 
adi1000 said:
that Lolita sounds interesting but i don't really wanna be doing a piece of work about phedophilia (sp?), i have to reinvent a character from a piece of western literature and bring them into the present, for example take romeo and juliet if i chose them as characters i would have to reinvent them as like say living in ireland and one family is Protestant and the other is catholic, but i want a more interesting character that is involved in drugs, sex, gangs and is female but i cant find a book like that.
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It seems like you're going about this the wrong way 'round. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't your assignment to find a character from literature and then place/reinvent them in the present? You've already decided you want a character that is involved in drugs, sex and gangs. Why not find an interesting character first, then see how that character would play out in the present?

ell
 
How about the Scarlett Letter? Hester Prinn would be someone you entirely re-create in modern day era. Her actions could be the same, but what follows would be an entirely different story since people just seem not to care about that sort of thing anymore.

I'm not sure if 'slutty' is the word, but at her time she was considered to be. Having a child out of wedlock.. fathered by someone other than her husband. Tsk, tsk. :D
 
For 'slutty', you could try Madame Bovary. ;)

Young woman marries to get out of home, becomes a bored housewife, married to boring doc, jumps at any male who'll rescue her from humdrum existence . . .
 
Ell said:
Why not find an interesting character first, then see how that character would play out in the present?
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I totally agree. I think you are going to have a little trouble finding something that fits such a specific requirement. You've got some amazing suggestions here. I've read most of the books suggested and would re-read any of them in a second. Plus, they are all books your teachers would respect as a choice, many of which pushed literary boundaries when they were written. Some of them are even still challenged as acceptable reading for high school students due to their content.
 
astrid from White Oleander is a great character. it is a "coming of age" book, but w/ a twist considering her mother is in prison for murder. she had to spend her teenage years within foster homes.. there's a movie out about this book, but i think they failed to show her strength. astrid was definatly a strong, sexual, intellegent character. i deeeefinatly would recommend this book to anyone. i absolutely love it.
 
Ell said:
It seems like you're going about this the wrong way 'round. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't your assignment to find a character from literature and then place/reinvent them in the present? You've already decided you want a character that is involved in drugs, sex and gangs. Why not find an interesting character first, then see how that character would play out in the present?

ell
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yeah i kinda realised that lastnight, i could of chosen little red ridding hood and placed her in urban new york and the wolf could of been a pusher or pimp.
 
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