Essay On Jeremy Visick

When you think fiction, your mind probably goes to a fantasy fiction book, right? Well, the book, Jeremy Visick, by David Wiseman, gives you a lot of fantasy, and a little bit of mystery mixed together. Within the book, you will read about Matthew Clemens. After Matthew was sent out to get blackberries, he falls over the bushes and land on a tombstone. He reads this tombstone and the tombstone belongs to a family called, The Visicks. On this tombstone it talks about how a miner and his two sons died in an accident in a mine called, Wheal Maid, but as Matthew looks closer at this tombstone, he sees another name. This name is Jeremy Visick, and his body was never retrieved. Almost immediately Matthew had a weird feeling about the name and then …show more content…
In the case of this book, not all of them really fit. One of these characters was Mr. Thomas. Mr. Thomas did give information to Matthew about Wheal Maid, as cited here, “Wheal Maid! I’ve not heard that name for years. It’s forgotten now. It became part of Damsel mine, I reckon,” (45). This information is good, and all, but Mr. Thomas did not really need to be there at all. Mary, his daughter, could have just asked her dad for information about Wheal Maid. Mr. Thomas also is there in the end of the book, but he really does nothing there, so he didn't really need to be in this novel. So, a fantasy book can’t be a fantasy book without fantasy qualities can it? Well, to answer that question, no it can’t, so for this book to be fantasy, it needs fantasy qualities, and it has some. The first one is the time traveling effect thing that happens at the nights when Matthew goes to sleep. So, as I have said earlier on, it happens at night. Matthew goes to sleep and the time traveling happens as found out here, “Matthew knew when he awoke that it was the black depth of night,” (86). This quote clearly states that Matthew wakes up and finds himself in these time traveling