Story: The Content of His Character

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Story: The Content of His Character; by samaryley
Topic Started: Jan 25 2009, 06:04 PM (134 Views)
samaryley	Jan 25 2009, 06:04 PM Post #1
Greaser Posts: 359 Group: Senior Member Member #465 Joined: December 17, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username samaryley	Okay, since people here helped me come to the obvious conclusion that Darrel, Sr. probably worked construction (thank you everyone in the canon characters thread I started), I owe you all thanks for this one. It wrote itself, once I got over my idea that he worked for the railroad. What do you think? http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4817493/1/The_Content_of_his_Character Thanks for reading Michelle
	"Nobody here knows what they're doing. That's why it's called research." -A. Einstein


ShotgunOpera	Jan 25 2009, 06:19 PM Post #2
shepard gang member, bee-yotch Posts: 3,824 Group: Senior Member Member #348 Joined: August 23, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Two-Bit Mathews Fanfiction.net Username ShotgunOpera	i'm about halfway through and i'm really liking it, especially the dynamic between mr. and mrs. curtis. i'll review once i'm done. :) edit btw, forgot to say in my review...i loved the fact that you used that line from martin luther king jr.'s speech. so appropriate. Edited by ShotgunOpera, Jan 25 2009, 06:27 PM.
	"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughta go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q -- "madness is like gravity; all it takes is a little push." - the joker, the dark knight


samaryley	Jan 25 2009, 06:46 PM Post #3
Greaser Posts: 359 Group: Senior Member Member #465 Joined: December 17, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username samaryley	Actually, I wanted to call it "The Measure of a Man" but that title was already taken. So I went with the MLK thing... always loved that line. Actually, originally I wanted the guy he grabbed to be a minority, but I wasn't sure how likely it was that they would have been working together. What do you think? Would he have been working alongside a Mexican or a black? I'd love to change it to that, to make him an even better man, but I'm not sure how realistic that is.
	"Nobody here knows what they're doing. That's why it's called research." -A. Einstein


ShotgunOpera	Jan 25 2009, 07:10 PM Post #4
shepard gang member, bee-yotch Posts: 3,824 Group: Senior Member Member #348 Joined: August 23, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Two-Bit Mathews Fanfiction.net Username ShotgunOpera	that's a very interesting question...i'm totally not sure lol
	"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you oughta go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q -- "madness is like gravity; all it takes is a little push." - the joker, the dark knight


rileysmomma	Jan 25 2009, 07:29 PM Post #5
Gang Leader Posts: 1,897 Group: Senior Member Member #317 Joined: July 27, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Fanfiction.net Username RileysMomma	samaryley72 Jan 25 2009, 06:46 PM Would he have been working alongside a Mexican or a black? Most likely not. Things were still very segregated back then, especially in the South.
	Put on your big girl panties and deal with it! Don't be the person who lights up a room by leaving it. The wisdom of chocolate: "Smile. Everyone will wonder what you're up to." - the message inside my Dove Promises wrapper


samaryley	Jan 25 2009, 07:39 PM Post #6
Greaser Posts: 359 Group: Senior Member Member #465 Joined: December 17, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username samaryley	Yah, that's why I got chicken and didn't make him a minority. I was... unsure. But still, I would think, for laborer jobs, there might have been a mix of whites/minorities (at the least, Mexicans). Cheap labor is cheap labor. I tried to look into it, but what the heck do you search for info like that?
	"Nobody here knows what they're doing. That's why it's called research." -A. Einstein


rileysmomma	Jan 25 2009, 07:51 PM Post #7
Gang Leader Posts: 1,897 Group: Senior Member Member #317 Joined: July 27, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Fanfiction.net Username RileysMomma	samaryley72 Jan 25 2009, 07:39 PM Cheap labor is cheap labor. You'd be surprised. Prejudice runs deep and back then you'd have been hard pressed to find someone willing to hire a minority to work on a "white" crew and even more hard pressed to find a crew that would consent to work with a minority.
	Put on your big girl panties and deal with it! Don't be the person who lights up a room by leaving it. The wisdom of chocolate: "Smile. Everyone will wonder what you're up to." - the message inside my Dove Promises wrapper


samaryley	Jan 25 2009, 07:59 PM Post #8
Greaser Posts: 359 Group: Senior Member Member #465 Joined: December 17, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username samaryley	well, I guess I don't know, then. I admit, actually- I don't know. Like I said, that's why I left it, as is. I live in the north, so my experience, and that of most people I know, is not comparable. My uncle is a black man who grew up in Alabama, and he said that it might have been possible in the LATE sixties to find an integrated work crew, so I was just wondering, based on that. I'm not really surprised, one way or the other. Just ignorant, probably, because I have allowed myself to be. So I welcome the education.
	"Nobody here knows what they're doing. That's why it's called research." -A. Einstein


rileysmomma	Jan 26 2009, 03:36 AM Post #9
Gang Leader Posts: 1,897 Group: Senior Member Member #317 Joined: July 27, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Tim Shepard Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Fanfiction.net Username RileysMomma	Okay, so I did a little poking around on this last night. Affirmative action came into play in '64/'65 but was applied mostly to federal projects. So it's not outside the realm of possibility that Mr. Curtis could have worked with a minority co-worker, just not probable. Times were different then and it would have taken time for general acceptance and application of affirmative action laws to be fully put into practice, especially with smaller, privately owned companies and even more so in the South. My original comments were based on conversations with my great-grandfather and great-uncles - who all worked as laborers in the South during the time period - and comments they've made about workplace diversity in present times. That said, I'd personally leave the story as-is. You've already made the point that Mr. Curtis was a good man, there's no need to try to make him look even better. The Curtis' were good people, but they weren't saints.
	Put on your big girl panties and deal with it! Don't be the person who lights up a room by leaving it. The wisdom of chocolate: "Smile. Everyone will wonder what you're up to." - the message inside my Dove Promises wrapper


samaryley	Jan 26 2009, 12:33 PM Post #10
Greaser Posts: 359 Group: Senior Member Member #465 Joined: December 17, 2008 Favourite Outsiders Character Darry Curtis Favourite Outsiders Character Sodapop Curtis Fanfiction.net Username samaryley	Hmmm.. I guess I tend to think into the world of possible but not likely quite a bit... Here in 2009 I am pretty much a straight shooter, but I guess in the 60's my mind tends to live on the edge. Thanks for the info, BTW
	"Nobody here knows what they're doing. That's why it's called research." -A. Einstein


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