Fictional Biography
Curtis Payne has revealed small details of his past, however many descriptions of his life are given in a comical sense and may or may not be true about him. Payne reveals in a discussion where he criticizes his nephews and nieces for what he considered laziness that as a young child he built a river with his bare hands. Ella Payne (Curtis' wife) mentions when an expert is brought in to discover why Curtis and Ella are having problems engaging in intercourse that she first met Curtis in a park when he approached her with a six pack of beer. The series begins when his niece-in-law Janine smokes cocaine and burns down her and her husband C.J. (Curtis' nephew)'s house. The couple and their two children, Malik and Jazmine (his great-nephew and niece) are forced to live with Curtis and Ella, which changes Curtis's routine despite his reluctance to accept. Throughout the series, Curtis - despite his dislike of the situation his nephew is in — has shown an interest in (what he considers) properly raising the Payne children often going to great feats to discipline them, such as prosecuting his nephew Malik when he and a friend takes his uncle's new motorcycle out for a joyride.
Read more about this topic: Curtis Payne
Famous quotes containing the words fictional and/or biography:
“One of the proud joys of the man of letters—if that man of letters is an artist—is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world’s memory.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)
“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)