eat your heart out, thomas wolfe
Nov. 21st, 2008 12:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardI HAVE FIGURED IT OUT.
Water is a story about home.
And for the life of me, I can't believe I didn't see this before. (Granted, I don't think it's supported in the text of Water so far, but it's been in my planning for parts two and three for ages.)
Be Like Water is a story about home, and making your own, and you can't go home again, and the things that make it yours and not someone else's. Part one is about the Pevensies trying to make Caspian's Narnia into their Narnia, which they can't, and trying to reconcile what was with what is, and it's about Caspian finding a place that he's comfortable with and a family. Part two is about Peter's estrangement from his home (and to a lesser extent, about the Pevensies' disconnect from England and from each other) and Peta's being forced out of her home. Part three is about Peta returning home, and about how things change once more, and how you have to fight for what the hell you want, and about the Pevensies discovering the core of what makes Narnia Narnia, and that you choose your own home. (God, I am such an idiot, I've known this for ages. Peta to Peter: "You could stay, you know." Peter: "You know I can't.")
You have no idea what a relief knowing this is.
Water is a story about home.
And for the life of me, I can't believe I didn't see this before. (Granted, I don't think it's supported in the text of Water so far, but it's been in my planning for parts two and three for ages.)
Be Like Water is a story about home, and making your own, and you can't go home again, and the things that make it yours and not someone else's. Part one is about the Pevensies trying to make Caspian's Narnia into their Narnia, which they can't, and trying to reconcile what was with what is, and it's about Caspian finding a place that he's comfortable with and a family. Part two is about Peter's estrangement from his home (and to a lesser extent, about the Pevensies' disconnect from England and from each other) and Peta's being forced out of her home. Part three is about Peta returning home, and about how things change once more, and how you have to fight for what the hell you want, and about the Pevensies discovering the core of what makes Narnia Narnia, and that you choose your own home. (God, I am such an idiot, I've known this for ages. Peta to Peter: "You could stay, you know." Peter: "You know I can't.")
You have no idea what a relief knowing this is.