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Hypnotism In Cat Winter's The Cure For Dreaming

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Hypnotism is a wonder that many of us do not understand. In Cat Winter’s The Cure For Dreaming, a young suffragist, Olivia Mead is hypnotized into seeing people's real image. Young adult readers who like historical fiction/romance would love the dramatic and intensifying parts of the book.

Olivia Mead, a 1900 suffragist from Oregon, has always been told that women are to be housewifes and should not go after their dreams. She eventually decides to participate in a suffragist movement and gets in trouble with her father. Her father decides to hire a hypnotist to remove the rebellious thoughts from her mind so that she would not end up like her mother, who ran off. The hypnotist, Henri Reverie, gives Olivia the ability to see who she can trust …show more content…

I liked how in one scene from the story she described the surroundings as, “Wide expanses of moonlit grass separated the east and west sides of the street.” I also liked how the author used vivid description to create imagery on the appearances of the characters such as when Henri was described as being tired and weary immediately before he collapsed. One thing that I didn't like about the book was how the figures in the book that were deemed untrustworthy were turned into demons and other creatures. This did not seem very appropriate towards how the story was presented. The author could have made them glow a different color or done something that wouldn't have been so gruesome and terrible. This book was very inspirational and interesting to me despite the demons and vampires.

The setting in the book sets the mood with Olivia Mead at different times and creates imagery throughout the story. In one scene, it is dark outside and the street is only illuminated by a small lamppost, and there is a sense of calmness because of how quiet it is. Olivia is sitting with Percy on the carriage, and they both feel generally comforted and eased by the silence and begin talking about the book Dracula. The conflict in the book between Olivia and her father eventually pushes her to become a suffragist and move out. Readers will continue to read this intensifying book as the conflict

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