Crawford's Asylum: Asylum

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Asylum Laughing, searching, and discoveries, you were like a miniature Sherlock Holmes, in you own little world. Loving to seek out clues that lead you to answers, and once you began the journey, it was hard to stop. With each new discovery, the mystery you were trying to unravel would become more and more intrigued. You would search for hours on end, looking, hoping to find another clue. Nothing could stop you, no matter how difficult the case, you were always on top of it. The joy of finally figuring out what happened is a feeling like no other. Even as children we try to understand the unknown. Curiosity is something that each and every one of us is born with, it isn’t a choice. However, we can always choose whether we want to figure …show more content…

he learns more and more each day, sneaking down to the abandoned basement, searching for clues about the warden, using what little prior knowledge he has to fit all of the pieces of this mysterious puzzle together. After going to the basement again, he finds something that would change his entire life; he finds a paper, more specifically, a birth certificate. It is an old piece of paper that was filed away in an old broken file cabinet. The certificate belonged to the Crawford family. The birth of the child named Daniel Crawford, and the father was Dan Crawford, the man in the picture that Daniel found in his dresser drawer, the warden of the asylum, and strangest of all, Daniel’s own birth father, the man that he had wondered about his whole life, yet never knew, or expected to find out who he was. If Daniel’s curiosity hadn’t pushed him to learn more about the asylums past, he would have never found out that the warden had the same name as him, and never would have found out who his father was. This clearly demonstrates how Daniel’s curiosity is important to the plot of the story because if Daniel hadn’t been curious, he would just go to class like every other person at the college camp, and there would a dry, uninteresting plot, and it would not be a good story to read, because the plot would be very boring. So Daniel’s curiosity is important to the plot of the story because there would be nothing to build the story on if Daniel didn’t go on the crazy and thrilling adventures that draw the reader into reading the story, Daniel’s curiosity is what brings the book to life, and provides a plot for the