Have you ever wondered what characters from stories would look like as real people? According to Reader's Digest, an artist used police sketch technology to simulate what the characters would look like as real people.
Clarice Starling
-From the novel Hannibal by Thomas Harris
-Thomas Harris, the author of the Hannibal novel, describes Clarice Starling as this: "FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling, thirty two, always looked her age, and she always made that age look good, even in fatigues...She saw herself clearly, saw the crinkles of age beginning in the corners of her eyes...Grains of burnt powder from the revolver of the late Jame Gumb marked her [left] cheekbone with a black spot...Her hair was a shapely platinum helmet."
-From the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker
-Bram Stoke describes the mysterious Count Dracula as follows: "Within, stood, a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache...His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose...The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking...his ears were pale and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm through though thin...the blue eyes transformed with fury."
Carrie White
-From the novel Carrie by Stephen King
-Stephen King describes the teenaged telekinetic as follows: "She was so pretty, with pink cheeks and bright brown eyes and her hair the shade of blonde you know will darken and get mousy...Her face was round...and the eyes were so dark that they seemed to cast shadows beneath them, like bruises...The lips were full, almost lush...Her hair stuck to her cheeks in a curving helmet shape...At sixteen, the elusive stamp of hurt was already marked clearly in her eyes."
James Bond
-From the novel Casino Royale by Sir Ian Fleming
-From the book, Ian Fleming describes this charming British spy as: "As he tied his thin, double-ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey-blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry, and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical."
Nurse Ratched
-From the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-According to Ken Kesey, readers will meet Nurse Ratched early in the book. He describes her as follows: "Her face is smooth, calculated, and precision-made, like an expensive baby doll...a calm smile stamped out of red plastic...flat, wide, painted-on green eyes, painted on with an expression that says I can wait, I might lose a yard now and then but I can wait, and be patient and calm and confident, because I know there's no real losing for me."
Captain Ahab
-From the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville
-According to author Herman Melville, Captain Ahab looks like this: "He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire has overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them...His whole high, broad form, seemed made of solid bronze, and shaped in an unalterable mould, like Cellini's cast of Perseus...Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark...branded...What business have I with this pipe? This thing is meant for sereneness, to send up mild white vapors among mild white hairs, not among torn iron-grey locks like mine. I'll smoke no more...his eyes like powder-pans...It almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead...His firm lips met like the lips of a vice; the delta of his forehead's veins like overladen brooks...Supper, he never touched; nor reaped his beard; which darkly grew all gnarled, as unearthed roots of trees blown over, which still grow idly on at naked base."
Lisbeth Salander
-From the novel Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
-Stieg Larsson describes the titular character as: "A pale, skinny young woman who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows. She had a wasp tattoo about an inch long on her neck...On those occasions when she had been wearing a tank top, a dragon tattoo can be seen on her left shoulder blade. Her natural hair color was red, but she had dyed it ivory black...Crooked smile."
Frankenstein's Monster
-From the novel Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
-According to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the Frankenstein Monster was described as follows: "As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began...How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing... but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost the same color as the dun-colored sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips."
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