Never Settle For Ordinary Character Analysis

Shana Campbell

Mrs. Love Hilliard

Creative Writing

8 April 2016

Never Settle For Ordinary

April 9th, 2017 will be the day my death is present, living life with regrets is something that should never be done, he still hasn’t had his first kiss, he still hasn’t had a real intimate relationship, he still hasn’t learned how to play an instrument. He never stepped outside the box into a new world, everything remained so ‘plain-jane’. But the film Stranger Than Fiction teaches the audience how to live life with no regrets, writers block is one-hundred percent real and always keep a strong bond with your characters.

Never look back, never regret something, life is short go out and achieve any and everything. For example the author introduces Harold Crick as a man of order, slightly OCD everything has to be done a certain way there is no living

Not knowing what your next word will be, Not knowing how the next sentence will flow. Watching the clock and time pass you by contemplating on what to do next, and how you’ll do it. Karen Eiffel had a major writer's block in the movie. Karen cigarettes is a representation of her writers block, Penny goes into her office to help her finish the end of the story because she had no motivation, but the cigarettes were all half done and unfinished like her thoughts. Karen never had many problems when it came to ending people life, but she just couldn’t find a way to end Harold’s. But a random day she see’s and apple rolling in the street and she gets the idea of how Harold is going to die, He is going to get hit by a bus. Director Marc Forster is teaching the audience that you can overcome anything, Don’t let one minor thing hold you back from being the best thing that you can be, even if an idea isn’t coming to you right then and there don’t except for one not to come at all. Which had happened to Karen and that was one of the best books she had wrote even with all of the challenges that it took