Assignment 22- Quinn Andrews

If I could be a fictional character I would want to be Temperance Brennan. Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who criss-crosses the American - Canadian border to solve crimes in South Carolina and Quebec. She helps identify those whose bodies have been damaged beyond standard identification. Aside from lab work, she'll also go to crime scenes and interviews to help with the investigation. The books are dissimilar to the tv show as in the books she is not socially awkward and has a daughter from the start. In the tv show, she is socially awkward, does not have a daughter until much later, and stays firmly in the US. I would want to be Brennan because her goal is to help people. She puts herself on the line to help others and does not get national acclaim or hero status for it. She may face hard troubles, but never faces a revolution or world disaster. Most books (which I prefer to tv) are steeped in misery, and the challenges the characters face seem impossible. For Brennan, it is by no means easy, but it is not earth-ending as many books seem to be. There are happy moments in the books. It is not all doom and gloom, as many books are.