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Originally Posted by neverending
A very interesting plot Noir... quite detailed and does seem to be rather Riceish.
I'm left with a few questions, however. Why 1931? Does the year have some specific bearing on the plot? If not, why not? Is this a stupid question- why doesn't a group of teenagers wandering the country in a carnival arouse any suspicions? Like, why aren't they in school?
I like the setting of the carnival though... was there a specific reason for setting it in 1931 instead of, say, a modern day sideshow/circus like Jim Rose's?
A very good entry overall.
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Thanks. :)
I picked 1931 because the 1930's were the height of the side show era and I wasn't sure when exactly it ended or started to die down. 1931 is just a year that I thought would definitely work. The movie Freaks came out in 1932 and I thought that the movie may have had some negative public reactions that may have caused low turnout for the side shows, so I wanted to have it set before then.
Also, carnies didn't typically attend regular school, but were taught by their parents as they moved around frequently. Also, because of the Great Depression and a manual labor work environment, a lot of kids didn't go into high school and dropped out beforehand.
In regards to having it set in the 1930's instead of today, is that today there is a paper trail for everything. You need ID, kids have to attend school up until 16. Back then, no one really had ID other than a driver's license, which didn't have your picture on it or anything. It was much easier to move around the country with whatever identity you wanted.