Another Place Another Time Analysis

Another Place, Another Time Owen, an adventurous little boy, eyed the bottle with a face of youthful curiosity. It was a translucent bottle made of orange glass with small round pills inside. He had never seen them before in his life and there was no label to explain what they would do, only four simple yet confounding words written in black marker that instructed him to “stay for a while.” After several minutes of debating, he let his curiosity take the best of him. He glanced around the rustically decorated room once again and popped a tablet in his mouth. It took effect immediately and poor, gullible Owen fell into a state of complete unconsciousness. When he woke, Owen oriented himself with his strangely tranquil surroundings. Mesmerized, …show more content…
He observed the masses of vegetation decorating the walls with peeling paint and chipped wood. As Owen came closer to the house, he noticed more details that would lead one to believe the home was currently uninhabited. This he knew to not be true, however, due to the sight of three silhouettes in flickering candle light beside drawn curtains. There was a difference in size of the three figures. One was of a broader stature than another, but both much larger than the third. As he apprehensively walked towards the door, he heard hushed …show more content…
He then stood back in anticipation. The doors opened soon after he knocked, revealing a barren interior with level stone walls. Everyone was very much confounded by this. They entered the castle and found a passageway as the doors shut behind them. There was no way to go but forward so they tentatively walked down the narrow passage with Owen leading the way. When the tunnel ended, they arrived in a sizable room with dozens of overflowing bookshelves lining the walls and some scattered throughout the room. The books held the answers to all the questions one could ever possibly think of. Alex was right. If there was an answer, he’d find it there. After many hours of reading books of all shapes and kinds and answering both philosophical and simple questions, the group determined that it was time for them to leave and return to reality. Owen then found a small bottle containing tablets with a label reminiscent of the bottle he discovered shortly before coming here. He took four pills and handed one to each person, as Jack, Martha, and Alex decided to go back as