Nightmares

Authors Note: I wrote a essay on the book Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz, I talked about how the two main characters in this book relate to people in or society and where they would fit in. 

Imagine you are engulfed into the dark night, the sky is clear, the light from the moon shines on you like a spotlight. The trees closing in all around you, sharp sticks scratching at your sides. You hear a familiar scream from your best friend and try to follow where it is coming from, but it seems to be coming from everywhere you turn. The ground, wet and squishy, gets harder to run;  everywhere you go the screams fade further away. You hear footsteps right behind you, but there is no one in sight. They whisper your name, you turn around and see a figure and right then you wake up; everything is fine. You’re in bed, safe. In our society when something like this happens it is just a bad dream but for Stacy, her nightmares reflect on a event that will happen in her life. 

This was a regular nightmare that was reoccurring for Stacy in the book Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz. To start off Stacy was average, she wasn’t the most pretty or the most popular girl, but something different about her was her dreams and how real they were, especially when things start to happen in her life that she recognizes from her dreams. Drea, Stacy’s best friend acted as a normal teenage girl, she was obsessed with one boy, she was very pretty, and always tries to look her best. They have a good friendship, like anyone else’s in our society. They help each other through problems and always trust each other. Then something happens that turns their normal days into a sketchy game.

The concept of this story is pretty unusual, they are both at a boarding school and Drea starts getting weird phone calls that were restricted and they other things started happening that no one had a answer to. They refused to talk to the police about it so they kept it to themselves. Everyone was a suspect, but at the same time they thought they were innocent. If this type of thing happened in our society people would call the police right away and report the problem and get it fixed. Not try to handle this kind of problem by yourself. 

If Stacy was in our society she would be kind of a outcast because she did spells and believed in supernatural things like that. On the other hand Drea would be a normal girl, pretty and funny. A regular high school girl. In both cases there are people like them in the real world. There are all kinds of people that are just like them. Like Stacy, she isn’t weird. She just has a different point of view on things in the world and has different ways of solving or figuring out problems. Drea just goes along with it because she trusts Stacy to help her.  

There are people just like them in our lives, they fit in their own parts in society. They might not have the same situations happen to them, but there are people who believe in the same things they do. They are different in their own way but they would still fit in society with the rest of people. People in our society might react to the things they went through differently but other things the same.