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I took your advice and focused on Wayne instead of August. Look what I found!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_C._Booth
Wayne Clayson Booth (1921-2005) was an American literary critic. “He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English Language & Literature and the College at the University of Chicago. His work followed largely from the Chicago school of literary criticism.”
“In what was likely Booth’s most-recognized book, The Rhetoric of Fiction, he argued that all narrative is a form of rhetoric.”
“Booth argued not only that it does not matter whether an author—as distinct from the narrator—intrudes directly in a work, since readers will always infer the existence of an author behind any text they encounter, but also that readers always draw conclusions about the beliefs and judgments (and also, conclusions about the skills and “success”) of a text’s implied author, along the text’s various lines of interest:
However impersonal he may try to be, his readers will inevitably construct a picture of the official scribe who writes in this manner — and of course that official scribe will never be neutral toward all values. Our reaction to his various commitments, secret or overt, will help to determine our response to the work.”
“This implied author (a widely-used term that Booth coined in this book; who he also called an author’s “second self”) is the one who “chooses, consciously or unconsciously, what we read; we infer him as an ideal, literary, created version of the real man; he is the sum of his own choices””
If by any chance the character is connected to this person, then we could argue that August is the author of Henry’s book and he is acting for the story to unfold.
I hope someone else has any more ideas here. I was never good at interpretation. 😉
As Nonnie says the August part could well be in honour of one of the people helping collect the fairy tales for the Grimm brother’s.
Other helpers were Dorothea Viehmann (she told them manny of the stories), the brothers Werner von Haxthausen and August von Haxthausen, as well as the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (quite a famous German poet, especially known for her novella „Die Judenbuche“/”The Jew’s Beech”) and her sister Jenny von Laßberg.
If ever names like these come up. 😉[adrotate group="5"]I found this connection as well and posted it to http://ouattheories.tumblr.com/. The great Wayne C. Booth coined the term “unreliable narrator” and the character August might be linked to that literary concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreliable_narrator
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
If the stranger is the unreliable narrator, maybe he didn’t fix Henry books but mixed up the stories. That would make us question in future once flashbacks, if events actually happened that way or were stories changed because the stranger made them change?
then again, in the flashbacks, they’re things that already happened before the curse took place so they couldn’t really be changed because the book is changed, could they?
He really might. Maybe it’s also simply something for people like us – who take way too much time trying to figure things out xD – to send on a wild goose chase.
I read in an interview that the spectators should not worry that at the end of the story Henry would just wake up and everything would be a dream. If Kitsis&Horowitz were telling the truth, then it would be weird if they used the concept for another character, right (although they might with Alice in Wonderland …)?Why do I always contradict myself? 😐
Some comments I found and copied for your consideration from
http://ouat.roneyzone.com/ouat-insteresting-tidbits-about-mr-august-wayne-booth/#commentsHillary: “I found this interesting… It states that a friend of the Grimm Brothers was named August. Also, this supports the theory that the Grimm’s may have something to do with the Storybrook library…”
From Wikipedia: “In 1808, Jacob Grimm was appointed court librarian to the King of Westphalia. In 1812 the brothers published their first volume of fairy tales, Tales of Children and the Home. They had collected the stories from peasants and villagers; they were also aided by their close friend August von Haxthausen. In their collaboration, Jacob did more of the research, while Wilhelm, less sturdy in stature and intellect, put the work into a literary form that would appeal to children and the masses. They were also interested in folklore and primitive literature. In 1816 Jacob became a librarian in Kassel, where Wilhelm was also employed. Between 1816 and 1818, they published two volumes of German legends and a volume of early literary history.”
In 1808, Jacob Grimm was appointed court librarian to the King of Westphalia. In 1812 the brothers published their first volume of fairy tales, Tales of Children and the Home. They had collected the stories from peasants and villagers; they were also aided by their close friend August von Haxthausen.
August is obvious
Haxthausen – house=shelter=boothWhatif wrote: August Von Haxthausen was the collector of the German Folklore songs that the Brothers Grimm used in writing their stories. This is why we see OUAT August VARNISHING the parchment in order to preserve the art work and using the sturdiest and most painstaking means of binding the stories in his copy. Stories of the real life August said he took great detail in insuring his stories he collected lasted long after him. OUAT August is documenting the rest of the story, thus his appearance when Emma stays. The real life August collected stories from soliders, I suspect this one is here to do the same.
A funny little sidebar, if you goggle pictures of the true August Von Haxthausen, his facial hair is even groomed in the same manner as the OUAT August.
I (SJM) LIKED THESE THOUGHTS. I KEEP WONDERING IF HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN IN THE COURT IN THE PILOT WRITING THINGS DOWN OR SOMETHING. I WILL HAVE TO REVIEW 😀
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