1.Who?

1. Who is the story about?


 * The story is about Saskia Verlaan expressing her various fears. Even though the writers fears deal with past experiences, they are vividly in her mind. "Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. I lie in bed for hours while my mind churns through endless streams of fragmented thoughts and memories, bits of brain matter that I do not have time for in my waking life.(Page 1, Paragraph 1)**



Page 1, Paragraph 5 Soon, however, they left me, and I realized with childhood’s sudden, ambiguous sensation of horror the absence of my mother, sister, and grandmother. Panic set in. Wild thoughts of abandonment took hold while I quickly retraced my steps along a rocky path. My surroundings, sparse cliffs with deeply incised furrows, became sinister, abstract forms in an alien landscape.

Page 4, Paragraph 5 "I hate confusion. i become tired of the endless struggle with its shares and tangles, the it warps the metal in my mouth, the way it muddles my thoughts, the way it keeps me awake at night. I toss in bed, hoping to escape."



Page 5, Paragraph 5 "For so long I have desired to assign order to myself in an attempt to comprehend something that I am now beginning to believe must, by its very nature, be understood through it confusion and distortion. Rather than being obscured by them, my experiences of fearreveal themselves through their facets, their fractures,nd even their contradictions."