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Harvey's Dream, By Stephen King

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" Harvey 's dream" by Stephen King is the story about a man that dreams about a horrible accident; a dream that might end up being a reality. The meaning of the story is to never underestimate a dream, because dreams might end up becoming a reality. The point that the author tries to make to the reader is to evaluate the elements of one 's dreams, and determine what our subconscience put there, and what is simply an element of our imagination. The theme of the story is mystery; inside the mystery we can find elements of sadness, unhappiness, and fear. There are two main characters in which one is Harvey, the husband who is telling the dream, and the other is Janet, the wife, who is listening to the dream. The setting takes place in their kitchen table, and the conflict is that the husband is telling a horrible dream he had, while the wife listens to it and …show more content…

This is the moment when we realized that to her it is not just a scary dream, these things happening in it are real, they are relatable and scarily accurate. A quote that makes us realize just how real a dream can be is when the author says "dreams are poems from the subconscious", because we start evaluating all the dreams we can remember. "Harvey 's dream" is a story so well written, I have no negative judgement towards it. Stephen King did a great job of showing both meanings of the story; the boring and decaying life of a married couple who stopped living, and the anxiousness of our nightmares becoming a reality. The author conveyed meaning and consistency thru the whole story, and we never got something that didn 't relate to the moral of it. King has played to two conflicting and simultaneous human fears, and has made us realize how much we don 't want that is our

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