The
Recurring Dream
The story
starts with a description of Kimberly Clark, who is twenty five years old with
all qualities of a normal young woman. She is pretty, she loves to dance, and
she has many friends and a good position in the office of a large company.
Despite these all, she has a problem. She has been troubled by a strange and
mysterious dream that haunts her every night. The strange dream always begins
on a country road. Kim stands on this road and sees a lane with a white fence
and a hedge on each side. At the end of the lane, on the top of a little hill,
she sees a small white cottage with green shutters. Then she walks up the lane
to the house, goes in and looks around. In one of the rooms, she finds a man
asleep in bed. He is a little old man with white hair and a white heard. When
she comes near his bed, the man wakes up. Then he sits up and looks at her.
When she tries to speak to him, she wakes up. She is very troubled by the dream
because she has never known any little old man like that and neither the place.
Kim's roommate knows everything. So, one day she asks Kim to visit her
(Janet's) parents' farm house to feel peace in mind. As they pass through a
country road, Kim sees the similar scene which she sees in her dream. They stop
there. Janet does not want Kim to go and see the small cottage but Kim goes.
The house was exactly the same, except for a sign 'FOR SALE' in front of the
house. Unlike her dream, Kim goes to the door of the house and knocks and to
her surprise the same old man answers the door who immediately closes the door.
After Kim's request, he opens the door. Kim again asks why the house is for
sale. The old man reveals that the house is haunted by a ghost. Kim tries hard
to think to say something instead asks who the ghost is. The old man gets
surprised and shocks her by replying that she herself is the ghost.
The Lost
doll
When
Evangelina was born and grown up, she looked very much similar to that of
Carmen's actions, characters, behaviours and other many things were very much
similar. The priest said that God healed Carmen and sent her back in the form
of healthy Evangelina. Though Rosa did not believe that her newly born child as
the reincarnation of Carmen but she could not reject the mysterious fact
towards the end of the story. When Evangelina reported everything about past
and about her doll, Rosa could say nothing anymore.
Carmen was
the only child of Roberto and Rosa Soto. She was beautiful, bright and loving
child. However she was sick from the day of her birth. When she was four, she
fell sick seriously and died. A few days after the funeral ceremony, Rosa gave
away Carmen's playthings and clothes to a priest of another village so that she
couldn't see them time and again. She thought that she wouldn't have another
child as she was told at the time of Carmen's birth. When Roberto knew about
it, he became very unhappy because he was hopeful that they would have
another
child. He asked about her the little dolly which Carmen always carried with
her. Rosa said that she didn't give it away. Then they searched everywhere in
the house as well asked the villagers too but they couldn't find it.However
they soon forgot about the lost doll because Rosa became pregnant. On the first
anniversary of the death of Carmen, Rosa gave birth to another child. Roberto
and Rosa became very happy. She was named Evangelina, which meant "good
news". When Evangelina grew she looked very much similar to her sister
Carmen. But
she was healthy girl. When she was about four, she told her mother that she had
been sick a long time ago. She also told her aunt that she had a little,
beautiful doll with blue eyes and red dress. She had buried it under a tree in
the yard. She requested her mother to dig up the doll. When Rosa dugup the
ground, she found the lost doll. She looked surprised, shocked and sick because
it was difficult for her to believe. Evangelina also said that when she was
sick, the nice man came and helped her to bury that doll under the tree. The
story accounts the
supernatural
significance regarding its particular focus on the concept of reincarnation.
When Evangelina was born and grown up, she looked very much similar to that of
Carmen's actions, characters, behaviours and other many things were very much
similar. The priest said that God healed Carmen and sent her back in the form
of healthy Evangelina. Though Rosa did not believe that her newly born child as
the reincarnation of Carmen but she could not reject the mysterious fact
towards the end of the story. When Evangelina reported everything
