Fictional Characters Who Remind You of Eli

[TΛPETRVE]

So that's why you're into gingers ...

[drakkar]

Hm... he hid it from us well in Stockholm..

[covenant6452]

Inger Nilsson....ggrrrrRRRoooowwwrrr!!! OwOwOWWooooo!!!

She's still got it!

[Lacenaire]

Well, Pipi is a child and she is strong but she isn't at all dangerous. I think this is a litte more like it, also from a Scandinavian story:

The coach stopped in the courtyard of a robber's castle, the walls of which were cracked from top to bottom. Ravens and crows flew in and out of the holes and crevices, while great bulldogs, either of which looked as if it could swallow a man, were jumping about; but they were not allowed to bark. In the large and smoky hall a bright fire was burning on the stone floor. There was no chimney; so the smoke went up to the ceiling, and found a way out for itself. Soup was boiling in a large cauldron, and hares and rabbits were roasting on the spit.

"You shall sleep with me and all my little animals to-night," said the robber-girl, after they had had something to eat and drink. So she took Gerda to a corner of the hall, where some straw and carpets were laid down. Above them, on laths and perches, were more than a hundred pigeons, who all seemed to be asleep, although they moved slightly when the two little girls came near them. "These all belong to me," said the robber-girl; and she seized the nearest to her, held it by the feet, and shook it till it flapped its wings. "Kiss it," cried she, flapping it in Gerda's face. "There sit the wood-pigeons," continued she, pointing to a number of laths and a cage which had been fixed into the walls, near one of the openings. "Both rascals would fly away directly, if they were not closely locked up. And here is my old sweetheart 'Ba;'" and she dragged out a reindeer by the horn; he wore a bright copper ring round his neck, and was tied up. "We are obliged to hold him tight too, or else he would run away from us also. I tickle his neck every evening with my sharp knife, which frightens him very much." And then the robber-girl drew a long knife from a chink in the wall, and let it slide gently over the reindeer's neck. The poor animal began to kick, and the little robber-girl laughed, and pulled down Gerda into bed with her.

"Will you have that knife with you while you are asleep?" asked Gerda, looking at it in great fright.

"I always sleep with the knife by me," said the robber-girl. "No one knows what may happen. But now tell me again all about little Kay, and why you went out into the world."

Then Gerda repeated her story over again, while the wood-pigeons in the cage over her cooed, and the other pigeons slept. The little robber-girl put one arm across Gerda's neck, and held the knife in the other, and was soon fast asleep and snoring. But Gerda could not close her eyes at all; she knew not whether she was to live or die. The robbers sat round the fire, singing and drinking, and the old woman stumbled about. It was a terrible sight for a little girl to witness.

[TΛPETRVE]

Ah, good ol' Andersen's Snedronning (The Snow Queen). I grew up with Andersen's tales.

[Lacenaire]

Ah, good ol' Andersen's Snedronning (The Snow Queen). I grew up with Andersen's tales.

So did I, although in a different world. But perhaps I should have rather quoted this fragment:

"They shall not kill you as long as you don't make us vexed with you. I suppose you are a princess."

"No," said Gerda; and then she told her all her history, and how fond she was of little Kay.

The robber-girl looked earnestly at her, nodded her head slightly, and said, "They sha'nt kill you, even if I do get angry with you; for I will do it myself." And then she wiped Gerda's eyes, and stuck her own hands in the beautiful muff which was so soft and warm.

Of course Eli was never quite as explicit about this matter with Oskar.

[God of Vampires]

At this level of infection, anything or anyone even remotely similiar remind me of Eli .

There is one charcter in a animated feature called Secret of Kells that reminds me of Eli. I have not actually seen the entire movie, only some scenes there this character is present. From what I can gather the movie is about a boy who befreinds a forest spirit named Aisling. This clip should bear some similiarities with LTROI.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZm1kVnZ7hk

In a short story that read as a english homework the main character also reminds me of Eli. The short story is called Pigs can't fly and is part of a novel by Shyam Selvadurai called Funny boy. The short story is about a feminine boy who rather play with the girls rather than the boys, but who are forbidden to do so by his parents who is afraid of him turning gay. This alone shouln't be enough to remind me of Eli, but then the story is named Pigs can't fly, I was already thinking of LTROI since I read the title.

[Leftover Ghost]

Eva Galli/Alma Mobley, the shape-shifter from Peter Straub's _Ghost Story_ reminds me of Eli. Both are on one level doppelgangers or "doubles." Of course, Eli is a MUCH more sympathetic character!

[abner_mohl]

Never read the book, but loved the movie with Alice Krige as Eva/Alma, who later played the Borg Queen on Star Trek First Contact.

[Leftover Ghost]

Never read the book, but loved the movie with Alice Krige as Eva/Alma, who later played the Borg Queen on Star Trek First Contact.

The book is quite good, although there are some "third act problems." In the book, the events which appear in the movie are placed within a framing story in which Eva/Alma appears as a female child that is kidnapped -- from a playground, I seem to remember -- by the college professor whose visit to the Chowder Society helps get the narrative moving in both the movie and the book.

Alma/Eva also strikes me as being a very dark anima figure; perhaps another basis of similarity with poor Eli.