{"id":7178,"date":"2012-04-10T15:18:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=7178"},"modified":"2012-04-10T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:18:35","slug":"trope-tuesday-language-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/trope-tuesday-language-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Trope Tuesday: Language of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Oh look! \u00a0While traveling in distant lands<\/a>, the hero met a girl<\/a>–probably the chief’s daughter<\/a>–and fell (or rather, stumbled<\/a>) in love. \u00a0The catch? \u00a0Neither of them speak the same language.<\/p>\n

That’s okay, though: through the power of love<\/a>, the two of them will somehow find a way to understand each other. \u00a0Whether through touch<\/a>, music, math, or a montage filled with\u00a0magical sparkles<\/a>, they come to discover that love itself is a language<\/a>, one which they know fluently.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I was a little disappointed in the page for this trope<\/a>. \u00a0It’s pretty dang sparse, though it does make a couple of good points. \u00a0The main one is that this type of story almost always has the male character speak the language of \u00a0the audience, with the female character being the foreign or exotic one. \u00a0That might be because the seductress<\/a> is such a powerful character archetype…but then again, it might just be because everything sounds sexier in French<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My favorite example of this trope is in the film Jeremiah Johnson, where the hero unwittingly stumbles into a marriage<\/a> with–you guessed it–the chief’s daughter<\/a>. \u00a0What starts out as an awkward pairing, to say the least, turns into a wonderfully endearing love story, as Jeremiah builds a cabin for the two of them (and the mute boy he picked up earlier…long story) and together they become a family.<\/p>\n

Because this is a major driving element in\u00a0Star Wanderers<\/strong>, the novel I’m currently writing, I’m especially conscious of this trope right now. \u00a0However, I can’t think of many good examples where this trope came into play. \u00a0Do you have any ideas that you can share? \u00a0Favorite stories where love overcame a major language barrier? \u00a0If so, I would love to hear about it. \u00a0Because in spite of my tongue-in-cheek comment about the sparkles, I think this trope has some really awesome potential.<\/p>\n

Image by Kevin Jackson<\/a>. \u00a0Taken from here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh look! \u00a0While traveling in distant lands, the hero met a girl–probably the chief’s daughter–and fell (or rather, stumbled) in love. \u00a0The catch? \u00a0Neither of them speak the same language. That’s okay, though: through the power of love, the two of them will somehow find a way to understand each other. \u00a0Whether through touch, music,… Continue reading Trope Tuesday: Language of Love<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[857],"tags":[97,361,160,641,565,626],"class_list":["post-7178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sw","tag-language","tag-love","tag-romance","tag-trope-tuesday","tag-tropes-and-cliches","tag-tvtropes","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1RM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}