Author’s Note: The story “Draw the Dark”, by Ilsa J. Bick, where a Seventeen-year-old, Christian, Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery. Have you ever lived your life without your mom and dad right there to take you any where you want and give you money to hang out with friends.
The story Draw the Dark is somewhat of a horror story. With the things that are unknown, like the great wolves at night, with their eyes glowing gold and strange. Draw the Dark is also a mystery, the main character Christian believes that is where his parents have gone. He is left alone then his Uncle Hank is the only family member that is left. how would you feel having nothing to know about your ansesters just being the last one that can maybe tie down to were your parents have both dissaper.
Draw the Dark resemblance of the show called Ghost Whisperer, it is about this one girl, Linda, has the ability to see and speak to the dead. She tried to help people that lost loved ones and the ghosts come to her for help so they could cross over to the light. Christian uses his dreams to help him find out what happened to his parents. Him hearing the ghost speaking too him, he can't understand a word they say. He just needs to take time and pay attention to them.
Between the past and the present. He ties all of his nightmares together. That nightmare of the barn, were he seen someone get murder but not knowing what that meant. Also the sideways place (were Christian thinks he will find his parents). He is trying to draw this nightmare to remember the details and to put his many nightmares together to many but an ending to his life mystery. If he could answer his questions, he would be able to go back to his “normal life” and not have to worry about having a nightmare that he has to find why he is having it.
Having to be able to understand what his dreams meant to the big picture shows that, not only does he have to be artistic, he has to relate his fiction dream to the real world. Witch everyone gets nightmares, were they try to get the story of why you had that nightmare. Christian the odd ball, which you would just assume his life was just him being a quiet 17 year old that just has nothing to do but trouble. People don’t know his life story. So they just accused him and didn’t give him a chance to explain, about the graffiti on the barn, saying I SEE YOU in bold red dripping paint. waking up and seeing his new shoes smell like the wet grass. what would you think if you saw that.
The world could be just like this, people are around might not just have the things you have. A loving home, family to buy you gifts. If you lost a loved one or they have just dissaperd, what are you going to do? I don't think you would just sit there and think of what they were thinking at that point.I hope you would at least try to find them.
This story was a history with some history for winter, Wisconsin. Were Christian and his old friend named Sarah. The story was just a fascinating story you just can’t stop reading. With the action of running every were, stress of being pressured , fear of hearing things seeing things, not being able to find where your parents have gone. You could feel it all. It was a book you don’t want to pass by.
