Thursday, November 7, 2013
Every Little Hurricane: Nightma(d)re(am)s
If you do not understand the title (haha) I was interested in nightmares and dreams in Every Little Hurricane. During the story, Victor's nightmares are his reality. In the story he has figurative and literal nightmares; "In those nightmares, Victor felt his stomach ache with hunger" (6) I think that Victor may be hungry because of the lack of money for food, but there is also a "hunger" for something else too. I think he has many "ache(s)" in what he says is the nightmare of his life. Victor even refers to his parents as "dream-less" (10) because they are not even capable of having dreams or nightmares because they can no longer differentiate between nightmares and reality. It seems they have given up hope and that dreaming for something would be pointless (in their minds).
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Awesome blog post title. I definitely agree that there is a mixture of Victor's nightmares and dreams as well as his delusion of reality and dreams. However, despite Victor's parents passed out on the couch, I feel that they don't completely affect Victor because: "[Victor] said his prayers just in case his parents had been wrong about God all those years" (10). Obviously, there is a really sad undertone, but I feel that it is slightly uplifting to know Victor still has this little light of hope.
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