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She tries to emulate her televiâ€" sion hero, Muvrhy McDonald: Murphy could always count on saying the right thing in a jam; she was never at a loss for words. Murphy never seemed sad, and when she was sad, she figured out how to make things right again. Everything worked out for Murphy. Nothing in what Murphy does seems to give Sarah any ideas about how to get her father back. She decides that her big problem is that she has too much imagination and that she lets it run away with her. Perhaps, she decides, she should just get rid of it. Overwhelmed and unhappy in his real world, Dillon turns more and more to a world of shadows and to his television set. Eventually, he is drawn right into the television world and disappears from his "real" world. He is vulnerable to the seduction and flattery of the television world, and to its easy answers. ~ Readers will notice several layers in the story. On one level is the warning of what happens when a young boy is miserable and cut off from his family. His father has left, and "He thought waking up one morning and finding his father gone was a pretty dirty trick ..." He cannot discuss his feelings with his mother, because he is supposed to be the man of the house now. Ron deBoer is a resident of Waterloo and a teacher at Eastwood Collegiate Institute. He is also the author of Returning to the Wind, which was published this summer. He wrote the book, deBoer says, with a specific "agenda." It is intended for use within media literacy classes or creative writing classes. DeBoer targeted this fantasy novel to what he calls "middle readers," students in the age range of 10â€"15, in Grades 5, 6, and 7, but he says it also seems to appeal to students in the early years of high school. As I read, I was struck by a resemblance to A Wrinkle in Time, which DeBoer says he did not read until after he had finished. He too noticed similarities. DeBoer admits that his work has a "heavy agenda" and says its "true use is in the classroom." He wrote it because of the strong push in schools to develop media literacy. a lon% list of conferences to attend this fall, where he will be speaking about his book and its place in a media literacy course. _ What is imagination for? _ (Closed Mondays) 30 William St. West Waterioo 576â€"9424 Brdvthintinthiflondinninibdina ifihbintmminibtheddabnt b4 Educators are responding favorably. DeBoer has long list of conferences to attend this fall, where Daily Specials Espresso, Cappuccino, Definitely Dessert! P ATI $ § ER 3E CAFE CUSTOM CAKES FOR ALL OCCASIONS .. ~RETURNING LIGHT TO THE WIND s eBz w & & & $ PR C*.‘ Characters within the TV world, and presumably DeBoer himself, make a plea for a world of peace, love and learning, to replace this world of opporâ€" tunism, control and corporate power. It will be interesting to see how students respond to the charâ€" acters and ideas of this novel, Like most fantasy, it works on several levels, becoming metaphor and almost allegoryâ€"all the things which this TV world has little time for. Judith Miller is Associate Professor of English at Renison College at University of Waterloo. Family Shoe Shopping ... Experience §¥ FACTORY SHOE MARKET This sort of observation is a social critique as well as a clue to another level of meaningâ€"the suggesâ€" tion that most of what happens on TV is very careâ€" fully controlled. The villain of the piece is Rollad Taroproc. He rigidly controls this world to his own ends. He had first thought that what he cared about was money, but he had come to understand that it really was power he craved and did not want to give up. Rollad‘s biggest problem is Teevo, the only one of the "repugb?iis” which really threatens him. A major cue to the reading of the book presented itself when I sat down to figure out what his name, an obvious riddle, really meant: hintâ€"it is spelled backwards. In each of the republics she visits, Sarah must find a key to help her get into the palace. This is the level of critique of various aspects of television programming. In Ershal (commercial?), for instance, people "repeated their actions over and over." In response to a question about locks, one citizen replies: "Smooth, rich and creamy. Everything | look for in a pudding." â€" S He never says anything elseâ€"and he spends all day eating pudding. He never does anything else. 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