Change--Personality

Change—Personality

Actually, lots of people have a imaginary friends. They may be not real and invisible for others, so people always put the wrong construction on what they see. However, imaginary friends are important to themselves. Poppy and Dingan is a story about imaginary friends of a little girl named Kellyanne, and it is written by Ben Rice. I like this book not only because it has a rich content, but also because it reflect personalities. It is not just a simple story of a mad girl, we can know more from this book.  

First, as I said this is not a simple story. What does this mean? We can see all the people’s personality through two imaginary friends. Actually, this book is about a change, the change before Kellyanne’s father lost her friends and after he lost her friends. We can see everyone’s personality from this change. Her missing friends even changed her whole family or whole town. 

For example, before she lost her imaginary friends, Ashmol never believed Poppy and Dingan were real, he even was aggressive to them. “ I walked over to where Poppy was supposed to be sitting and punched the air and kicked the air in the head to show Kellyanne that Poppy was a figment of her imagining.” ( Page 3. Rice, Ben. Poppy and Dingan. New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.) After Kellyanne was ill, he changed a lot. He even went to Old Sid’s mine and went down the claim at midnight to look for Poppy and Dingan. He complained about himself, he also thought the thing which he was doing was a stupid thing on his way to the mine. The book said: “ When I was half the way out to Wyoming I stopped and asked myself what the hell I was doing going looking in the middle of the night for two dead people who didn't exist. ” ( Page 51. Rice, Ben. Poppy and Dingan. New York: Vintage, 2000. Print.) In my opinion, he still did not believe Poppy and Dingan were real, but he did these things. He loved his family and his sister, he could try his best to let his sister get better and cheer his parents up. Loving his family is one of his biggest personality. The author did not say this clearly in words, but he did wrote these details to express his personality. I like this method. In general, several details are stronger than one “ love” sentence. 

Also, this change influenced other people. Before Kellyanne’s dad lost Poppy and Dingan, people treated Kellyanne’s father normally or even liked him. However, after he lost Poppy and Dingan and was pointed as a ratter or a thief, people changed their attitudes. They did not believe him anymore, some of them even burned his tense, even though he was clean. People did not think of their past relationships, they wanted to kick Williamsons out of this town and protect their own mines. These are negative personalities from this book. 

At last, I should say I love this book. I’ve never seen a fiction that talks about imaginary friends, this is interesting. Also, I love the rich content in this book. The most interesting thing is the author expressed the personalities by writing this story of imaginary friends or change.