The Sandman

Well when i first picked up this book, lets just say I was not ready for what was going to happen. I wasn't sure how the setting of how the story was going to take place. What I mean by that was which form of reality was the author going to use, was the story going to be more realistic in the sense that what is possible in life is possible in that story or was it going to be more of a fairytale where the sandman himself was a real person who came to childrens homes to make sure they fall asleep and not some made up fictional character used to scare children. It was kind of funny to me because there was a character's perspective for each possibilty, Nathaniel's mother at first gave the Sandman a real but not harmful sense in that she would just say, "go to bed, the Sandman is coming" then soon after, he would hear heavy footsteps coming into his father's room. The other more threatening perspective was that of the house maid who told young nathaniel that if he didnt go to bed, the sandman would rip his eyes out. But as the story progressed we found that Nathaniel's Sandman was actually a mean lawyer named Copelius who threatened to put hot pieces of coal in his son's eyes once he caught nathaniel eavesdropping.

 The video that was posted on the blog was about a real Sandman who snuck into a little boys room and gauged his eyes once the boy saw him, then fed the eyes to his children. This video was surprisingly horrific and perhaps gave me my first real sense of uncanny, when i first saw it i did not expect anything to happen to the little boy. He was so young and innocent,  his mother sending him to bed seemed all to familiar, the boy being hesitant to go, while the mother reassures him everything is okay and he has nothing to fear. What shocked me was that the boy ended up losing his eyes to the Sandman! That was strange to me in that it wasn't the typical fairytale ending that everything was going to be okay, even though that was my initial feeling toward the video.