Tell Me Your Dreams

Sir –

This is a novel written by Sidney Sheldon. I have read it recently and would like to present some lessons according to my view points. This novel summarizes about the life story of a young girl named Ashley Patterson. She is being used by her own father Dr. Steven Patterson from her childhood. He is a specialized doctor in heart surgery.

Ashley grows up in that atmosphere of fear, anxiety, depression, anger and hatred towards herself and father. She is totally lost in a world where she does not know who she is and what she does. She is scared to reveal to anyone what her father was doing. She is unable to accept any of the opposite sex in her life. In anger and depression she murders many young men who wanted to use her which she herself is not aware. She has no idea that who it can be who wants to harm her. She tries desperately not to get panic but lately her sleep fills with nightmare and she awakes each morning with feelings of impending doom. Once she is arrested by the police, that leads to one of the bizarre murder trials.

She is being helped by many doctors and psychiatrists. It takes many years to get healed and later she  finds her real self, how wonderful a person she is. She comes to know her giftedness and appreciates herself that she is beautiful. Ashley says, “I’m excited, I’m frightened, and I’m – I don’t know. I feel like a bird that’s just been set free. I feel like I’m flying.” And her face starts glowing.

This gives me great joy and hope while completing the novel. Likewise, there are many more young women and children in our society who are living a desperate life. Life is not the end of any events or situations that takes place in our lives. There is always a silver lining ahead of us to be unfolded. Let’s not get discouraged and disheartened of those painful or unhealthy experiences. Instead be positive and hopeful to realize to seek for help from others, to find our true self, to identify, to appreciate and to love ourselves and to others to live a harmonious life in the society. Let’s aim to have a heart to help the person like Ashley if we come across in life.

Yours truly,

Promila Kujur, Communicative English with Media Studies,

Patna Women’s College,Bailey Road, Patna.

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