"No Escape" from The Mee Street Chronicles

When I was reading “No Escape” from The Mee Street Chronicles, the impression I got from the narrator as she told her story was that she was young, afraid, and creative. I got these impressions because as the narrator tells the story, I can tell she is both young and creative since she imagines monsters and fairy godmothers, and I can tell she is afraid because she is afraid of the shadow monsters and her parents not responding to her calls.

Two character traits I saw in the narrator of “No Escape” were innocent and lonely. The story causes me to see these traits in her because when she was alone in her room, you could see the innocence through the words in the book. She was afraid of the shadow monsters and believed in a fairy godmother. These two characters of imagination show the narrator’s innocence and youth. The narrator was also lonely. In “No Escape” the narrator is frantically calling her parent’s name waiting for a response. She doesn’t get a response for a while, but as she waits, she is afraid and alone.

The story “No Escape” is something that I am able to relate to. When I was younger I was afraid of the dark and believed in ghosts and monsters. I remember when I was around four years old, I would be afraid of the dark. Late at night, my imagination would run wild, and I would scare myself. The first thing I would want to do is run into the safety of my parent’s arms. But in order for me to get to my parent’s room I have to pass by the bathroom. When I was younger, I believed that Ursula, from The Little Mermaid, would hide out in the bathroom and that she wanted to kidnap me so she could steal my voice like how she stole Ariel's. So I would run as fast as I could to my parent’s room. Half of the time I never made it because I was so afraid. If I didn’t make it, I would just run back to my room and cry. Eventually I would call my parent’s names out loud and they would have to come and carry me to their room. Finally, I was safe between the arms of my mom and dad.