SuitabookDreams and reality
Janet repeatedly dreams of a white doe and a warrior, then encounters a closely resembling scene when Billy arrives.
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Gary Paulsen - Author
A mysterious, dream-shaped encounter links Janet with Billy Honcho and with stories of his people.
For reasons she doesn't understand, 15 year old Janet feels drawn to Billy Honcho, and old Native American who sleeps off his drunken binges in the Plaza. Maybe it has something to do with the dream she has over and over - a dream of a white doe and a warrior dressed all in white and leading a pony, and drawing his bow to shoot the deer. Janet always wakes up before the deer is hit, until the night Billy comes to her house on a horse, dressed all in white and leading a pony, and asks her to ride away with him. That night she hears the stories of his people. That night she learns who he might have been. That night, the white deer dies.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA mysterious, dream-shaped encounter links Janet with Billy Honcho and with stories of his people.
Janet repeatedly dreams of a white doe and a warrior, then encounters a closely resembling scene when Billy arrives.
Billy tells Janet stories of his people, and she learns who he might have been.
Fifteen-year-old Janet feels drawn to Billy, an older man, who asks her to ride away with him at night.
The opening situation includes alcohol misuse, a substantially older man, a teenager’s unexplained attraction, repeated dreams involving a bow being drawn, and a deer’s death.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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