No Escape- Brave and Imaginative

In the story, "No Escape" from The Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie Lennon, the narrator, Frankie, finds herself in a frightening situation but she is able overcome her fear by imagining a fairy godmother. Frankie Lennon is able to capture the readers’ attention by leaving the reader with the impression that the Frankie is frightened because her parents are no were in site and when her fairy godmother gives her advise she feels secure and safe. In no escape I am able to identify two strong character traits that Frankie demonstrates. This two character traits are brave and imaginative.

As a reader, I am able to understand that at the beginning of the story Frankie is frightened because her parents are not home. This causes her to imagine a wicked voice whispering to her. She is terrified because the wicked voice keeps telling her that she is, “locked in…[reminding her that] the shadow-things will get [her] soon because there’s no escape!”(pg.20) At this stage her fairy godmother steps in and gives he courage to cross the imaginary forest (her kitchen) in the dark. Her god fairy mother whispers, “No, not trapped, whispers my god fairy mother. What about the kitchen door?” (pg.19) At this point her Fairy Godmother is trying to comfort her.

I identify Frankie as a brave and imaginative girl because she had courage to walk around her home, in the dark, by her self instead of hiding under her covers and waiting for her parents to come home. I am able to see her courage at the beginning of the story when she said, “a shiver runs across my shoulder, and I want to go back and put my head under the covers, but I don’t…” (pg.16). I also identify Frankie as imaginative because she was able to imagine two people talking to her and following her trough the night. I believe Frankie to be a smart girl because she tricked her mined into thinking that she had a fairy godmother and a wicked voice talking to her. I also feel that she has an excellent memory because in a situation like hers I wouldn’t be able to remember Hansel and Gretel story. I would have been to scared to even think about walking around my house in the night time.

This frighten situation is something that I am able to identify my self with because as a child I always shared my room with my little sister and we always had two night lights. I always felt scared waking up in the middle of the night wanting to use the restroom. I would tip-toed into the hallway and would run into the restroom quickly trying to turn the light on. A shiver would always run up my spine. I would quickly pee and try to turn the light off. Turning the light off was the hardest thing for me to do because I would feel that as soon as I turned the light off a ghost would try to get me. I would touch the light switch with the intention of turning it off but, it wouldn’t fully go down so the light would still be on. I would then have to return back to the bathroom, cross the dark hallway and try to turn the light off. I would hate the fact that I knew that their was no such thing as ghost but my mind would play tricks on me. I imagined that their were eyes looking at me. Even though, as a child I was able to identify myself with Frankie I never had the courage that she had.