# Re: WATCHER PART IV

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Posted by LeviLovR on May 24, 2020 at 13:57:17

In Reply to: Re: WATCHER PART IV posted by Ry on May 24, 2020 at 05:47:01:

Ry, I'm going to answer some of your questions regarding the story, but not all of them.

Yes, Watcher is definitely looking for a father figure. Basically he wants somebody to love him and to know that somebody out there cares about him. Wes also is looking for someone to love who will love him back. He's made a lot of sacrifices in his life for reasons I can't reveal yet. Basically he's hung up about Bobby's death and hopefully the reason for that will explain everything to the reader in the end.

No I have not decided exactly how old Watcher is. To me it doesn't really matter and is a minor detail not all that relative to the story. Likewise I haven't given Wes a specific age either. What's important to know is that Watcher is in his mid teens facing a crisis he doesn't know how to deal with and Wes is a middle aged man re-evaluating his life and what he's done with it. I like to let my readers use some imagination. Too much detail can bog down a story. It's not important to know the characters shoe size. If you drew a picture of Watcher and Wes and compared it my picture of them they would probably be very different. That's totally ok. Readers can only relate to a character or a story by comparing it to their own personal experiences and people they have known. The writer may do the major work in creating a story, but the reader has to do his/her share and take that written word and transform it into a picture in his brain. Have you ever read a book and then gone to see the movie? Which do you like better? While I like both I usually prefer the book because the movie doesn't look at all like I expected the people and places to look. It's hard to explain but I think the reader is much more satisfied when can conjure up their own image of a character.

Enough of that! At his age Watcher should definitely be in high school. Again, to me a minor detail not all that relative to the story. It doesn't matter what grade or level he's at. I actually had planned to make a very brief statement about his education later. To me it doesn't matter if he aced his math quiz or flunked it. Not relative to the story. I could make him a high school drop out, but for all intensive purposes he attends school.

Here you can get your driver's license at 16. You can get a driving permit at 15, which means you drive with an adult in the passenger seat until you the time you get your license and drive solo. Most kids get their license at 16. What usually happens is that most people take a driver's ed. class usually offered by the school or through a private driving instructor. You watch films and actually drive on the road with the instructor telling you what to do. I believe you have to drive a certain number of hours, but I don't remember what that is. When I did it we usually had three students and the instructor in the car. We would all drive for a while, then switch off and someone else would drive. There were a few times I was the only driver. One time the instructor needed to go to the state capital and I was the only driver. We got on the turnpike, which I had never been on before, and we were halfway there when I looked over and the instructor was asleep. At the end of the course you take a written test and apply for your driver's permit. When that comes you drive with an adult, usually a parent, and then apply for the driver's license. You go to the bureau of vehicle registration, have a minor eye exam and short written test. You then get in the car with the tester and he tells you what he wants you to do, things like stopping on a hill. parallel parking etc. They watch EVERY detail. If you pass you get your license. If you fail, you have to apply for another test. I failed my first one due to parallel parking. I had been practicing on brother's car, which was small. But on the day of the test he refused to let me take his car and I had to take my parent's station wagon, which I couldn't get in the space. After that I practiced with the station wagon and passed the next time.

Here you are considered a legal adult at 18. You can vote, go to war and be killed, get your own place. However, the legal drinking age is 21.

When I was growing up the magic number for everything was 21. I did some research regarding the legal age for drinking here in Maine. It started at 21, was dropped to 20, was dropped to 18, went back to 20 and has gone back to 21 which is where it will probably stay. Figure that out! Underage people can legally drink with their parents permission and supervision on their own property. However, if the underage person leaves those premises and gets arrested or in an accident the adult is held responsible and there are some pretty hefty fines, even jail time depending on the circumstances.

Sorry for the long post!

CAIO!

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