Ideas and Thoughts

I've been thinking a lot about what to do for the re-write and am struggling to think of things that I have read that I would be able to use. But I do have one idea, the only thing is I can't get hold of the book without buying it from America or the UK.

• The Queens Soprano - Carol Dines. 
  
• There is a scene at the end which has an image of slaves chained on the decks of a ship, they have arrived in Rome (it's the 17th Century) to become slaves for the wealthy and to work the lands. I think it could be interesting to do a poem or short story about what they are thinking or the likes as the scene gives a good image that has stuck with me since I read it like  7 years ago or something! 
• Because I collect quotes I actually have some of the quote from this scene. "As I stared at a huge vessel docked along the harbour, I saw dark-skinned men, chained on deck. Slaves, I realised. I couldn't read their faces. Couldn't read their hearts. But I knew… knew what it was not to choose for yourself. To have your fate chosen but someone else. I’d always believed that freedom came from rising up in society. But now I understood there were many kinds of freedom, and the most important for us is the freedom to look inside our own heart and speak the truths we find there." -Angelica, the Queens Soprano, Carol Dines.
• Another idea that has come from this book is the 'central' family has a servant called Lucia, she is featured a lot but you never really know what she is thinking or feeling about everything that is happening. 
• The only problem with these is I'd have to get hold of the book and re-read it...