"The Thing in the Forest" was a very descriptive, vivid story in which two little girls wonder into the forest and encounter a "thing" which is horrid and haunts them for many years. The plot and characters are simple enough but what I had a hard time figuring out about this story was the central theme or I thought, "was there one at all?" Surely there must be so I tried to pick through and look deeper into the story and it's meaning, and this was difficult for me not only in this story but often times the theme may not pop out to me right away.
What I came up with was maybe the "thing" the little girls saw represented their fear, their country was in wartime and they were evacuated to a safer place away from their families. I can imagine they must have been pretty scared and I'm not sure if the "thing" was real or if they made it up but it was their fear and then these fears haunted them the rest of their life. At the end, both girls go back to see the "thing" once more, which shows how sometimes we need to face our fears in order to move past them and continue with our lives.
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I think you're ready for "Ulysses" now.
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