Brian Evenson's Perception Of Childhood

Childhood is the most interesting and comfortable period in people’s lifetime because it is the beginning of discovering the new world. Everything is fresh to children and they feel excited to get along with it. Hence, children learn the world gradually by exploring new things around them and build more and more comprehensive vision in their mind. In fact, children always imagine freely about surrounding and they have no idea about recognizing differences between their imagination and reality. According to the “Windeye”, Brian Evenson describes a boy whose perception is contradictory to his families and reality when he thought he lost his sister in childhood. It is easy for children to regard their imagination as reality. At the same time,

With the process of their expedition, they find out that there is one more window on the outside than inside and they named as windeye. When his sister and him work together to get closer to the windeye because of their curiosity, his sister is sucked into the window suddenly and disappeared. Even though the boy attempts to find his sister, there are no tracks which can assist him, and his mother even tells him that he never has a sister. Thus, he is confused about his memories and reality that is told by others. As time goes on, he has to pretend that he understands this situation and still wonders about her all the time. Furthermore, serious psychological block makes the protagonist fail to build relationship with his families and the

According to the plot, his sister is the only friend who has fun with him and she is part of his life. He will feel lonely if he does not try to imagine that he has a sister in his world. In light of his loneliness, he becomes more introverted and enclosed. Then, the boy seems to hide himself into the imaginary world and escapes from reality. It is dangerous to his mentality because he cannot divide differences between his imagination and reality. Furthermore, serious psychological block generates negative influences on his daily life which makes him hard to communicate with his families. Hence, he is too weak and fragile to fight alone in this psychological battle, “Despite years of forced treatment and various drugs that made him feel like his head had been filled with wet sand, despite years of having to pretend to be cured” (Evenson). When he failed in this battel, he had to get unfavorable healing which can force him to accept reality. However, excessive and unconscionable methods drag the boy into a worse situation rather than provides him