Gossamer Book Report

Gossamer Plot Gossamer begins with the protagonist, Littlest being taught how to give mickle dreams by her instructor delicious. Littlests childish and playful nature annoys Fastidious greatly. At their home, the Heap, Fastidious complains about her student to Most antiqu taked, who is the leader. Most Ancient and Fastidious decide that Thin Elderly will become Littlests mentor. Littlest is part of a small colony of dream-givers. Through touching, they gather fragments such as colors, words, sounds, and scents. They then combine the fragments to become dreams, and give the dreams to humans, and sometimes pets.The prominent of dreams is called the bestowal. Thin Elderly explains to be gentle in the touching and not to touch too deeply, because a dream-giver who picks up bad fragments of a entrepot becomes a Sinisteed, a horse-like creature who inflicts nightmargons. Thin Elderly gladly discovers that Littlest has the miasmal touch, the ability to gather and bestow gently. An el derly womanhood and her weenie Toby live in the house Littlest and Thin Elderly are assigned to. The woman decides that she is difference to take an eight-year-old boy puddled John into her household. The genial workers describe him as angry. Another dreamgiver, Strapping, is assinged to give dreams to the boys mother. She was an intelligent woman, nevertheless was forbid to participate in social and intellectual events by Duane, her abusive ex husband. John was taken away from her because it was not a good milieu for a child. When John arrives at the womans home, he acts violent and angry. The woman acts kind-hearted and tries to be understanding. At the dream-givers Heap, Most Ancient reports that the Sinisteeds are gathering, intent on a particular victim. That night, Littlest and Thin Elderly hear a Sinisteed wear through the walls of the house. It inflicts John with a nightmare.He cries out in his sleep, and the woman calms him by reminding him of a laughing(prenomin al) memory. after, Littlest and Thin Elderly gather comforting fragments to dish strengthen him after the nightmare. During the day, johns mother talks on the phone, asking to have a receptionists job and salary. She tells the listener to tell her word of honor that he will be back home soon that she roll in the hay him and that she dreamed of him last night. H That night, Littlest decides she must touch the dog, trying to ingest fragments from him. Thin Elderly protests, because they arent supposed to touch living creatures, but allows her to do so.Littlest notices how attatched John was to a pink seashell, to Toby, and to a chrysalis he had found.. She gathers fragments from Toby, and bestows them as part of a dream. Thin Elderly is proud of Littlests bestowal, because John is happy in his dreams. Littlest explains that the fragments she collected had a bit of a story in each one, which she put together in her mind. Johns mother begins working a school. She reflects on how bad her old life was for her watchword, John, because of Duane. She has hope now of reservation friends, which Duane had not allowed her to do. Strapping is satisfied with his work.Strapping discovers he has a liking and a hope for the woman. Accordingly he gives her dreams of hope, and of a future with her son. John tells a story to the woman about a young boy who ate dog food, because he had been ordered to by his father, who had seen the boy run defenceless through the house and pee on the floor. The father had accused the son of acting like a dog, and gave him dog food for all his meals. The woman realizes that John is telling a story about himself, explaining his past abuse. T That night, Littlest and Thin Elderly discover that a Horde of Sinisteeds are going to give nightmares to John and the woman.They respond by bestowing strengthening dreams. They are tight killed in the stampede of the Horde. That is the storys climax. John begins school, and has become a much happier chi ld. Littlest is disposed(p) a medal for her work. She is told that she is to be reassigned. She wishes to remain assigned to John, whom she has come to love and cherish, but is told that dream-givers are not allowed to feel human emotions. Littlest Ones experience with the boy has helped her grow more mature, and as a result she is given the name Gossamer and given a new dream-giver, New Littlest One, to train.