A man leaves his wife and daughter to find a better life for all of them. The man enters a world of shadows and wonder, filled with funny creatures and boats that sail in the sky. It is a very magical and whimsical land. For me, it represents how foreign a faraway place is to someone. Everything is different and new and a little weird.
But, life there is not all fun and games, life never is! The man begins to work at a huge factory (along with many other workers with the same intentions as him) in an assembly line, sorting things into piles. The man meets many people with stories on how they got there to that magical place, and it turns out, almost all of the people there are immigrants just like him.
The man would always send his daughter a letter, folded into a paper crane. It ended up that the man's wife and daughter sent him a letter saying they were coming there to join him, which they did. By the end of the story, his family has settled down and is living in a house in the magical land the man moved to.
Over the course of this story, the man changes a lot. He starts out as the "new guy" or the tourist. But gradually, he becomes a native almost and ends up directing other "new guys" or tourists where to go. The story could go on forever and ever, almost. An evolving cycle of life where immigrants or "tourists" move in, the natives show them how things work, and then leave everyone else to finish things up. Its just like life, only more futuristic and straightforward. Even though this story had no text, it said a lot.
Lucy Murrey
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