In “The Lonesome Place,” Johnny
and Steve were afraid of going into the woodsy area the grain elevator. They
were afraid of what or who was inside of that area. The described the monster
as a dragon, no face and the feet were made of claws. So many things about this
place scared the boys. This reminds me of a time when I was about ten years
old.
As a young child, Chelsea
Drive was my playground. I had multiple friends that I played everyday after
school let out. Countless games of hide and seek, racing on our razor scooters,
and hopscotch was played on that street. We particularly loved to play across
the street from my house. There was something frightening and exciting about
this place. It was dense with grass and trees and we never knew what we would
find in there. Our parents always told us to be careful over there and to stay
away from it as much as possible but being the rebellious children that we were
we didn’t listen. There were these mysterious trails within the “woods” that we
walked up in down, playing hide and seek and looking for secret caves and
hiding places.
Just as bobby died in the
woods, my neighbor’s cat was also killed in the woods, by a coyote. Although it
is not the same magnitude, it scared us to go into the “woods” we once happily
played in. We stopped going as soon as the incident happened because we were
scared to run into the monster that killed the cat (at the time we were too
young to know it was a coyote.)
To this day, I still believe
that the “woods” is a pretty creepy place. I now know why my parents, just a
Johnny and Steve’s parents, did not want me to go back there.
REFERENCE:
Derleth, August. “The Lonesome Place.” American Gothic Tales.
Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. New York: The Penguin Group.
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