Speaking Your Story Through Many Different Characters

M.J. Politis is, among other things, a prolific author. Many of his books are available to purchase through the qb-one store.

How can one relate many aspects of one’s own life, and life in general, through a character in a book? The answer is…Many characters.

When I am trying to find a story worth feeling, discovering and sharing, I find myself diving deep into the Soul and finding characters who can tell different portions of the story. Just as the Greek God’s Honest Truth says, and our ancients imagined, one character can represent not only one trait, but many under it. In The Greek God’s Honest Truth, Athena is not only the goddess of beauty but deception and vulnerability. In Telenkovian Experiment, a story about the Holocaust Stalin inflicted on the Ukraine in 1931 when he took away all of the food and a third of all the people, each of the characters are both Saints and Sinners. Of Lions and Lambs portrays a stand up comic who would be a horrible date and a worse mother, but who is a comedienne who earthlings needs more than it knows. In Professor Jack, an old coot hanging out in the New Mexican Desert in the 1990s who claims to be JFK, not assassinated, but escaped from Mafia and Illuminati captivity, is mentor, teacher and possibly selfish executioner to a Gen X drifter who he pulls into his final political comeback. In Revolutionary Blues, Charlie O’Brien, an American Expatriate who asked the Devil for supernatural powers in the late 19th century so he can escape a boring life at home and do good around the world, gets entangled with the Yaqui Indian revolt in Mexico where his battle with his benefactor shows that he is as flawed as any angel, or demon. Heart of the Healer reveals the inner life of a physician at the end of his life that reveals that he not only cures ills of the human spirit and body, but has been inadvertently instrumental in inflicting such on people. In Henry and the Wolf Doctor, the ‘good’ veterinarians have dark, destructive pasts that are in part their own doing, the ‘bad guys’ being not all that different than us, the well-meaning and (to our own perceptions anyway) virtuous readers.

Each of these books of course have multiple other characters in them who reveal the flaws, faults and foibles in human behavior which we call good or bad but for them (as they try to survive the slings and arrows of plot twists) become necessities.