Creating Man

     In this post I will flesh out one of the main characters of the film, William. He is one of the two and only primary characters in the film, and one of the two seen in he opening, so it is imperative that I delineate his persona and represent him accurately.

     The following is a compacted list of  the earlier years and basic information of the male protagonist to better understand the type of person he is, his habits (which I will create later), and the type of person he will grow into. I plan on going into much more detail with his character analysis but this is simply primarily background.

William (second most common name from the 1860s to the 1880s)

• Age: 19 years old (the perfect age to be involved in the war, since boys were typically drafted in the Civil War at 18 and younger volunteers lied about their ages, and still too young to be married)

• Hometown: Concord, New Hampshire (this area is heavily forested, making it an ideal setting for most of the episodes since this is where most of the fighting wil have taken place in his circumstance; it is also significant in Civil War history)

• Type of childhood: father is authoritarian and mother is passive; live in Kentucky (this is a boarder state so it could be the cause of a relevant conflict that explains why William lives with his fiancée and why they are not there to help him)

• Most poignant memory: hunting a deer in the woods with his father and choosing not to shoot it (this could be incorporated into a poignant episode where his innocent memory of not shoring the deer is distorted to him shooting the deer and the deer transforming into a person representing his horrific his experiences were)
• Most important childhood event that still affects him: his battles in the civil war because he was so naturally and simply innocent (reflected by the incorporation of the memory of the deer)