Kit's Wilderness: 3rd Post pgs 94-139

Kit’s grandfather strength has taken a bad turn. He collapsed in Kit’s house and had to be moved to a hospital. It is now fully wintertime and the fact that Allie is starring in the winter play, “The Snow Queen” is causing a great sensation. Even the weather seems to be effected; more snow has fallen this year then for many years before. Kit finds Askew in the wilderness and tries to get him to come back into the light, but Askew refuses. In English class, Kit has begun to write another story, which is also effected by the theme of winter. It is the story of Lak, who survives with his family during the time of the ice age. However, Lak and his baby sister are separated from his family after they are attacked by a bear and he and his sister are left for dead. Meanwhile, Allie prepares for her role by learning a magic trick in which she makes small objects disappear and reappear again. Kit then begins to have dreams about his grandfather being made to reappear again, completely healthy and Lak’s family reappearing to Lak when his mother pays a magician to “bring him back”. During all this time, Kit’s grandfather is still ill and Askew remains hidden from the rest of Stoneygate.

In Kit’s shoes, I’d have been very alarmed if my grandfather had callapsed all of a sudden. I would have been even further distressed to realized that he had to be moved for an indefinite amount of time into a hospital, meaning he’d be separated from us, his family. I think that, more then anything else, family can help someone to recover better then any medication because it gives the suffering person a reason to keep fighting for better health. Of course, I’d have been quite proud of Allie for being able to become the star of the winter show at our school too, but I’d still be quite preoccupied with my grandfather. I might have even begun to get distanced from her. Not that I would want that, this sort of thing has happened to me before and that’s what happened. If I were writing the story about Lak, I’d be strongly influenced by what’s happening in my life. Perhaps I’d make the entire story a metaphor for what was happening in my real life. Lak would represent Grandpa, Lak’s family would be my own family and the old magician would be Allie. In this case, the story would focus on the view of the sufferer, Lak/Grandpa. Then I’d give the story a happy ending where Lak finds his family again and hope that Grandpa gets better, so that it follows the story.