Willy Wonka and Other Psychopaths

Posted on January 23, 2017 by

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I’ve shown my book to a few people recently and one of the things people have picked up on is that my main character Tyger might be a little hard to warm to, not always that likeable perhaps. Obviously I don’t want readers to hate my main character, she’s supposed to be a dynamic and exciting hero. I write her deliberately tough, possibly a little too harsh at times and definitely unempathetic. But at the same time I don’t want her to be a bully. 

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These thoughts coincided with my reading Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test, in which the journalist, humorist and documentary maker visits various potential and actual psychopaths armed with a copy of the Hare PCL-R checklist for diagnosing the condition. Psychopathic traits included:

Glibness / Superficial Charm

Need for stimulation, proneness to boredom

Cunning / manipulative

Poor behavioural controls

Impulsivity

Irresponsibility

Early behaviour problems

Criminal Versatility

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About Kenneth T.

My blog, My way Welcome to a little piece of my life. Here you will find things concerning my everyday experiences and or my thoughts on everyday happenings. For instance you may find thoughts of my Farmstead, which is as my wife calls it, our Accidental Farming life. Perhaps on a whim, I might just jump on a soap box about what's going on with my crazy family (the immediate one, that is).~You don't need to put a penny in the coin slot for any commentary there~ You may find, new additions to what I call "Hobby-time". Ahh yes, my hobby... I make pinback buttons (some call them badges). Sorry for the shameful plug ;-) *** And then there is the outside the box or "Offtrack" thinking, part of me. Which can be anything else from aliens to the zoology of the Loch Ness monster, but will probably be more mundane as health concerns, for instance, to vaccinate or not. Is the Earth Flat or is it Hollow? Is there a dome? Is any of it real? Do you really want to know? Police brutality and the continuing corruption of established government, Big Business, Big Oil, Big Brother. Can we survive? Should we survive? The coming montrary collapse. There is so much going on, more then we see outside our windows.
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