Journal 9

After reading "A Thing in The Forest" I believe the Thing is a figment of the young girls imagination.  I believe they were searching for an adventure and ultimately found one; however, the thing represented something on a whole other level.   I believe it resembles the world at that time, scary, ugly, and destroying everything in its path. The world was deeply entrenched in World War II, it as falling apart at the seams and was being destroyed all over the map, especially in Europe.   A part of the reading that stuck out to me was it said "Its progress was apparently painful, for it moaned and whined..." This is an accurate representation of the world at that time because of how much pain and suffering everyone was in.  It also says in the story how the body of the thing was glued together like wet paper-mache, this gave the impression that it was very fragile, which everything in the world was at this time.  Overall, I believe that the two main conditions of this story are the historical condition, which was World War II and how awful of a place the world was at that time, and the feelings condition, which was how sad and painful the creature was which accurately conveyed the world during World War II.