“Horses of the Night” by Margaret Laurence Essay

- â€Å"I hated the way that I was so young† - Chris makes his own dreamland (farm, dashing ponies and so forth.) He attempts to sell magazines, vacuum cleaners in any event, when he knows he won’t make it to college. He can’t face reality. Additionally, when there is strife he disregards it and it appears he doesn’t even notification it. He holds a dream in his brain that appears to be genuine to him - In Shallow Creek, when Vanessa sees the ponies is the point at which we know that Chris is living in a universe of fancies. - Chris’ dreamland is his solitary shelter from potential craziness on the grounds that without it, he would have no desire forever - Vanessa stresses that she is unequipped for saying the proper thing when they go outdoors and Chris discusses God and the Stars. â€Å"pretending to be asleep† (pg.22) - Chris doesn’t react when his granddad discusses him, he sets an obstruction between his own reality and reality. - His reality comprises of his ponies, saddle, confound, own farm. He has control of everything in his reality so it just concerns him - The line gradually, gradually ponies of the night implies Chris vanishes into craziness and that he can’t see day and night. Means the night must move delayed for Chris and â€Å"Whether he had found finally a path for himself to make the vital dream perpetual† (pg.24) - Chris sees God as strange and ruthless. He doesn’t have faith in God. Vanessa doesn’t react, so perhaps she puts stock in God and doesn’t need to reveal to Chris her perspectives. The conditions for their perspectives may be the way that Chris’ family lives in neediness while Vanessa is in an ideal situation a tad. Vanessa is frightened of talking/saying an inappropriate things - It uncovers that he had a psychological breakdown and that he is lost in his dreamland. He no longer lives in his own reality (Chris’ letter) - Vanessa discovers that the letter from Chris is the last thing that reveals to her he is lost and the letter affirmed why he did unreasonable things. She comprehends why he had a dreamland. - abundance of creative mind unsafe - he has control of his own dreamland ponies Duchess and Firefly. In any case, in all actuality they are furrow ponies. - boundary among individual and this present reality when an individual dreams excessively - he conveys and plays with more youthful kids since he has control and they make no decisions about him. - sells vacuum cleaners, magazines and sewing machines to college yet he doesn’t have the imprints to get in. - without his dreamland he would have no desire forever. - Chris ends his life to escape the â€Å"absolute insufferable quality of battle†