No Escape

In the story “No Escape” from The Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie Lennon, the first impression that I got from the narrator was sacred and lost. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, she calls her parents and hears no responds and becomes scared. Her imagination goes wild as she thinks about the monsters that are going to eat her. I felt that the narrator was lost in her house. Every room she went to she didn’t know what to expect. She was not accustomed to walking in her house in the dark.


The narrator of the story “No Escape” from The Mee Street Chronicles by Frankie Lennon made two clear characteristics, courageous and imaginative. The narrator shows courage because she was brave enough to conquer her fear of the monsters eating her. She did not want o move from the living room where she was at and wanted to stay still. The godfairy told her that if she stood there the monster was going to eat her. I saw courage when she finally decided that she needed to go to the kitchen even though she did not want to. When I read that the narrator believed in godfaires, I knew she was imaginative. The way she had the power of forming a mental image of something not present made her imaginative. In the story, she relies on her godfairy to tell her what to do. For example, “Push the stepladder chair up close to the door, so you can be tall enough to open it” Pg21.


I can certainly relate to her frightening situation because I remember when I was eight years old I woke up from a nightmare thinking that monsters had killed my new born brother. At this moment I didn’t want to go look if my brother was in his room because I felt that the monsters were going to take me too. I finally got the courage to get out of bed and go to my parent’s room. I saw that my brother was still alive and all my worries were gone.