"No Escape" The Mee Street Chronicles By Frankie Lennon

The impression I get of the narrarator as I'm reading the story "No Escape" is a young, imaginitive, paranoid, but brave little girl who finds herself in a trapped house trying to escape the evil witches and shadow monsters before they catch her. As she scoots out of her bed frightened of the silent darkness and the loud thunder, she searches for her "Mama" and "Papa" but they seem nowhere to be found. As she walks carefully and suspiciously in the darkness of the house, she imagines having a fairy god mother who enourages her not to stop and to keep on going. With the help of her fairy godmother, she is brave enough to carry on her imaginary adventure and overcome her fears of the monsters and darkness who she imagines are after her.

Two character traits she demonstrates in the situation is as a couragous young girl who has a very wide imagination. In the story when shes in her parent's bedroom, she's extremely frightened by the rolling thunder and nearly gives up in trying to escape all the monsters and dark shadows that she imagines are after her. Her god fairy mother encourages her to keep on going, be brave, and reminds Frankie of the story Hansel and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel is a story about two siblings who are lost in a witches forest. Gretel, the older sister is the brave one who holds her brothers hand and takes step after step to try and escape the forest no matter how frightened they was. Frankie, the narrarator tells herself and pretends to have an imaginary brother in the same situation as Hansel and Gretel were in. She imagines the bedroom as the witche's forest and encourages herself to keep on going in the dark before the monsters catch her. This part of the story not only shows her courageous and brave side of not giving up but she also uses her imagination to her overcome all of the fears and things she's afraid of at the moment so that she's able to escape. The narrarator also has an evil voice she imagines that scares her and tells her the bad that's soon going to happen to her but her godfairy mother is the one that guides her through her fears.


Yes this frightening situation the narrarator was in is something I could definetely identify with because I too had experienced a time in my life where I was extremely afraid and paranoid and I didn't know what to do. I wasn't as imaginitive as the young girl was who put herself in a adventurous situation with voices in her head telling her what to do. Although I never really believed in monsters, I once did imagine shadows and ghosts who were out and after to scare me. I remember in middle school I was constantly afraid of the the dark in my own home. Wherever I was whether I was alone or not, I always wanted to have the light on, even when I'm sleeping. In my own home, I remember many times wanting to get a glass of water or some snack, but the problem was being able to go downstairs alone late at night. I would wonder and debate if I should go downstairs because I was afraid that someone or some ghost would appear out of nowhere. I would creak my door open very slowly and observe any noises I could hear. As soon as I felt ready, I'd dash quickly down the stairs and turn on the light which was right across my bedroom as fast as I can. I would get whatever I wanted to get in the kitchen without looking back because I didn't want to find anything behind me. As soon as I would get my water and/or food, I would race up the stairs into my room and close the door behind me right away. But eventually as time passed, I got over being afraid of ghosts. I would continuously tell myself that even if I saw a ghost, there would be no way they'd be able to hurt me. The worse that could happen is seeing a ghost appear right in front of me with no possible way of it being able to physically harm me. From there on, I was no longer afraid of seeing a ghost pop out of nowhere because there are far more other things to be afraid of than ghosts.