DusterBoy Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Re: WWYCD:Little Girl Lost I don't have a character in play (plenty of concepts, though), but I thought I'd reply anyway . . . Bear in mind the future shock caused by going from the Stone Age to the contemporary era with no pauses. How do you explain the modern world - especially the concept of money and consumerism and laws - to a person who has absolutely no frame of reference to understand such things? For myself (and my characters tend to have the same baseline mentality as I do), I would explain that she has grandparents back in another world and that she is an important person back there, like a tribal chief. However, I would make no move to forcibly remove the girl from her adoptive family, especially if I saw she was happy and that her "new" parents loved and cared for her. PS: the term "future shock" was coined by the futurist Alvin Toffler in the 1970s to describe the disorientation and fear or at least deep-seated unease caused by an increasingly rapidly changing society. Kind of like a temporal version of culture shock, only you can't go back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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