/lit/ - Literature

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>Doesn't this specific case about people removed from mass culture undermine your general point about reactionary traditionalism?

Hypothetical junglemen aren't posting online and don't have any desire to revolt against modernism to return to the daily life that they're already living.

Why not both?

My mom loves it, if that means anything.
So you'll probably end up okay on the other side

/lit/, may someone come here and ask for some help in developing a part of a story?

I've written myself into a corner and I'm trying to find some way out.

If I may: I've established one character's age in their early 30s. I'm trying to go back and describe that they fled from an abusive home at a very young age. I'd like now to introduce a sibling in their teens that the main character found out about and either alerted social services or 'dealt' with the parents more directly.

The problems I'm facing are: I find it unlikely that an abusive set of parents would stay together long enough to grant a 15-16 year age difference between the two characters. If I write them as simply irresponsible, it seems unlikely they'd go that long without churning out another accidental pregnancy.

At eighteen, the older sibling finds employment and begins to anonymously sponsor their younger sibling. I've figured out how to explain this; but it closes the window I have to work with.

Ultimately, I picture the younger sibling as ending up as a borderline criminal of sorts. Skirting the law, breaking it when they can get away with it but never anything serious enough to catch real heat. Ultimately, the younger sibling would become the protagonist when the elder is taken out of the story.

I'm sorry for rambling; but I'm trying to sort this out even while I type. If this isn't the place, let me know and I'll delete the thread (or leave it to do, since I haven't been able to delete my threads recently).