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Mar. 22nd, 2022 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mme_hardyDear Author,
When your viewpoint character, kidnapped by foreign forces when he was expecting to be killed by them, has to live in their military camp for some months, he is going to have culture shock. More than once. He's eating weird food, speaking his second language constantly, traveling (because army), exposed to wildly different assumptions about (for instance) the proper treatment of women. He's going to worry about what his family is doing.
To say nothing of being kidnapped when he expected to be murdered instead.
Just going with the flow and learning interesting new things is the act of a robot.
Yours,
Tonstant Weader.
(Not naming the book because I don't have time to do a proper review. It's got some ill-thought-out tribal-vs-'civilized' cultures stuff going on, too.)
When your viewpoint character, kidnapped by foreign forces when he was expecting to be killed by them, has to live in their military camp for some months, he is going to have culture shock. More than once. He's eating weird food, speaking his second language constantly, traveling (because army), exposed to wildly different assumptions about (for instance) the proper treatment of women. He's going to worry about what his family is doing.
To say nothing of being kidnapped when he expected to be murdered instead.
Just going with the flow and learning interesting new things is the act of a robot.
Yours,
Tonstant Weader.
(Not naming the book because I don't have time to do a proper review. It's got some ill-thought-out tribal-vs-'civilized' cultures stuff going on, too.)
