Daydreaming and Stuff

In this essay I compare 2 texts:”Maggot Moon” and a “Daydreaming” poem.
“Maggot Moon”,written by Sally Gardner,is a book about Standish Treadwell,a teenager,living in an alternate 1950’s Britain,where the Motherland is a Nazi like government which wants to launch the first rocket to the moon,however there is something more to it and Standish discovers it...And it is big.The poem on the other hand is written by Laurena Pamela Willetts,and it is just about her dreaming about an exotic quiet place,where is calm and silent,where she forgets about stress and busy life.

Both texts share the idea that some people don’t like the world they are living in, and want to be lost in an imaginary world,in a daydream. For example in “Maggot Moon”,Standish constantly lives in a terrible country. When he is in school class he is not listening to the teacher who doesn’t like him. Gardener shows us that his teacher doesn’t like Standish when he says, “ Mr, Gunnell didn’t like me.” We also see that Standish is not comfortable in his world when he says, ”I wasn’t listening to the lesson when the note arrived from the headmaster’s office.” The fact that he is not listening, shows that he wants to be anywhere but school. He would prefer to be, “in the city across the water, in another country where buildings don’t stop rising until they pen the clouds of the sky.” He uses his daydreams to escape his world. He would prefer to be, “where the sun shines in Technicolor.” In his real world he is considered stupid,other teenagers bully him,the government is ruthless and constantly thinking that Standish with his grandfather are hiding an astronaut.In the poem,the speaker thinks the everyday life is busy,crowded and noisy.For her daydreaming is sort of relaxation from real life.She doesn’t really like her busy and noisy life.“Maybe I’m wrong and its city bound dusty, noisy plagued with sound,overcrowded, busy teeming with life,all seeking to bring stress and strife”

I think that these are the differences in the these texts-in “Maggot Moon”,
Daydreaming is sort of necessary,as Standish lives in a world,where he lost his parents-”Mum and Dad were gone”,friends-”But this was the best daydream I’d had since Hector and his family vanished”, and where almost everyone doesn’t like him except his grandfather and his friends.Also Standish has lots of problems,such as,that he was expelled from school,or bullied by the other teenagers.In the poem,however,the speaker neither really have any problems,neither the world she lives in is terrible.For her daydreaming is a relaxation from the busy and noisy modern life.She just dreams about “Some faraway place exotic in flavour,some distant shores whose spices we savour,silvery beaches with white capped waves lapping,tall upright palms bowing and swaying”

In conclusion.These 2 texts show,that daydreaming is sometimes very important,especially in case of Standish in “Maggot Moon”.In “Maggot Moon” Standish is constantly facing problems,from other teenagers and government,so for him daydreaming is essential,as his world is very bad.As for standard people with a normal life,like the woman in the poem,daydreaming sometimes helps to get rid of stress or forget about problems.