A Summary Of David In Stitches

Reality is an external terrain for our minds and bodies, but the imagination is an internal escape for our thoughts and reasoning. It is a endless realm that can only be controlled by ourselves, and an area for us to freely think about the outside world and create an entirely new reality inside of us. This mental reality is a place that we can escape when we are unable to connect in the real world or the real world becomes too hard to bear just as it was for David in Stitches: A Memoir by David Small. Within a comic medium, David is able to find an escape during the darkest periods of his childhood through an alternative reality by drawing and imagining himself inside the magical world of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. While

Perhaps one of the most significant references to the book, a parallel is made between the White Rabbit who leads Alice out of her own world, and into another lines up with David’s therapist helping David out of his dismal reality that he has grown up in. The therapist and the White Rabbit have morphed together because through this character David found an escape. This same imaginative character was a character that came from imagination, and ultimately helped David come face to face to the fact that his own mother did not love him (Davidson). In every scene David has in therapy, the therapist is always portrayed as the White Rabbit. The therapist becomes like a parent figure for him as they talk about David’s thoughts and troubles (268-269). David finds solace within the therapist. During his sessions, his therapist explores David’s dreams with him. Imagination plays a big factor in David’s dreams. In one dream, David has imagined himself a lonely bat calling out for his mama on a cold rainy day (196-197). As he continues to search for his mama, he spots something against a wall that may be his mother. He grabs what in reality is an umbrella and as he opens it up expecting to provide protection, the umbrella has holes all over it. This dream manifests the truth about his relationship with his neglectful mother. Even when he wasn’t awake. While a bat and an umbrella may not have much in common, it is through David’s imagination that David begins to makes connections with his