What Good's A Captive Without Her Captor?

What Good's A Captive Without Her Captor?

Where We Are From... [s]tories Are Factual. If A Farmer Is Declared A Music Virtuoso By The State, Everyone Had Better Start Calling Him Maestro. And Secretly, He'd Be Wise To Start Practicing The Piano. For Us, The Story Is More Important Than The Person. If A Man And His Story Are In Conflict, It Is The Man Who Must Change.

For An Entire Populace, Change, Growth, And Spontaneity Were Dangerous. Acting Upon A Personal Desire, Whispering A Hidden Longing, Revealing Your True Feelings - All The Human Actions We Think Of As Essential To A Character - Had Be Censored By The Self Lest They Be Punished By The State.

Life Brings What It Brings. I Might Be Young But I've Learnt This: Prepare For Each Blind Corner With Your Strongest Shoulder Dropped, Ready To Smash Through Whatever Is Thrown At You Next. Once The Dust Clears You Will Be Standing Tall, A Champion, A Victor. Nothing Will Be Able To Knock You Down Once You've Taken The Biggest Hits This Life Has To Offer, So Come On Life, Bring It!

In America, The Stories We Tell Ourselves And We Tell Each Other In Fiction Have To Do With Individualism. Every Person Here Is The Center Of His Or Her Own Story. And Our Job As People And As Characters Is To Find Our Own Motivations And Desires, To Overcome Conflicts And Obstacles Toward Defining Ourselves So That We Grow And Change.