So, you guys helped me alot before, let me know if you have any good ideas for this! I'm writing a scene where my main caracter struggles alot with hate-love relationship towards a parent. the parent has done something really bad and the teenager is struggeling to forgive amd move on.
How should these kinds of conflicted feeling best express themselves?
Any tips would be helpful!
How should these kinds of conflicted feeling best express themselves?
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Brett
My initial thoughts are two.
First, the issue can't be handled in a single interaction. Maybe your story involves only sharing a single scene. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out where the character is in relation to processing things.
My second thought is that a teenager is likely going to go through the five stages of grief. While they haven't lost their parent in terms of the parent dying, they have lost their parent in terms of having lost faith in that parent. They are likely going to go through a similar process of someone grieving over a loss, because psychologically they have faced a huge loss.
First, the issue can't be handled in a single interaction. Maybe your story involves only sharing a single scene. If that's the case, you'll have to figure out where the character is in relation to processing things.
My second thought is that a teenager is likely going to go through the five stages of grief. While they haven't lost their parent in terms of the parent dying, they have lost their parent in terms of having lost faith in that parent. They are likely going to go through a similar process of someone grieving over a loss, because psychologically they have faced a huge loss.
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Patricia
Start with love, then add hints of bad behavior from the parent that leads to the hate. The rest could center around forgiveness or not.
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Dana
Angry verbal accusations mixed with tears would show the conflict of wanting / not wanting to forgive.
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