An Essay on The Door in the Wall

In the subject of L/L Writing the teacher propose us to write an essay on one of the book we read. I choose "The Door in the Wall". Here is my essay:

 The Door in the Wall was about a boy called Wallace that when he was 5 years old he was going to school and saw a green door in a white wall. The last time he thought he had seen the door was in a construction place, which caused his death.

 The author described the contrast between reality and imagination in the story. Wallace, the protagonist, lived his real life as a politician, but at the same time he became obsessed to find this imaginary garden behind the green door.

It is difficult to match his real life and the door in the wall, because, as I said before, he was a politician, had money, his mother died when he was a kid and his relationship with his father was bad. He was not a happy boy. The door always appeared when he as doing another things.

 The garden and everything that was inside it with his childhood is another difficult thing to match, because inside the door there were all the things he would like to have but he could not. There he could find trees, children, etc. It was a paradise for him. In his childhood he was alone, his father did not pay attention to him, his mother was dead and he did not have friends at school. His only friend was Redmond, the first person that knew this and narrated the story.

 Finally, the gallery and when he died in the construction place. In the gallery he found a woman with a book that showed him like a summary of his life. When he wanted to see how his life would continue, everything started to disappear and he appeared on the street. The construction place was the last time he saw the door and it was when he died entering to the door.

 In the Door in the Wall, the author H.H. Wells, shows that it does not matter if you have a sad or happy childhood you can always imagine what you want and nobody can prohibit you this, like Wallace. In this case, he created his own escape from reality with everything he needed, like a mother and friends. That is why the door appeared only when he was sad, as when his father died or when he felt lonely.