1. Soukayna Mardas
Mrs. Dunn
Grade 7 Lit. Period 2
October 18, 2012
Dream or not
“Why won’t you go trick-or-treating with us?” Ally’s friends whined.
“You know why, I have a spelling test tomorrow.” Ally replied.
“You know those words; I’ll test you when we get back. What are the words anyway?”
Questions Lily.
Lily looks down at the paper and the words are uncanny, macabre, accomplice ghastly,
fiends, monstrous, divulge, contorted, ominous, linger, bizarre, extinguish, evasive, deceive,
persuade, exonerate, vague, decade, surmise, and reproached.
”They look easy, and I promise I’ll test you when we get back. Come on when is the last
time you enjoyed yourself?” said Lily one of her friends.
“I guess a while ago,” admitted Ally.
“That’s why you should come with us,” protested lily.
“Ok, fine I will come, but we have to be home by 9:30,” Ally stated finally giving in.
They left the house and went to all the houses on their street since all 4 of them lived on
the same street “Ithan Road”. After getting bored from trick-or-treating at the same development

2. every year, they decided to venture out.
“Come on let's go home it is getting dark. The grass is wet it also looks like it is about to
rain," cried Ally.
"Please, just this one more house." Begged her friend Ashlee.
"NO, it is about to rain,” said Ally almost screaming.
"Do not be such a downer, one more house," pleaded Lily.
"Fine!" Said Ally finally giving in again.
As they approach the large house Ally admires the2 by 2 square brown and bageh stones
carefully placed and glued together to form a curvy walk way that started at a driveway as dark as
the night and ends at a large house with windows as tall as herself and so shiny you’d think they
were wiped every minute. Before she knows it she has already reach the porch. They ring the
door bell and an old man with wrinkles as deep as the ocean opens the door with a bowl of candy
in his hand.
"Why hello." Says the old man.
"Hello," muttered the group of friends.
"I wait every year for you and you never come. Finally you have found my house," says
the old man as he put some candy in their bags.
The girls look around and notice this is the abandoned part of town. His house is the only
one on the block so they tell themselves that this lonely old man means any trick-or-treaters and
they shrug it off.

3. "Now that you've come I have something special for you," announced the old man.
The man goes inside his house to get the gifts, while the friends look at each other
confused if they should leave or stay.
"It's okay it's probably only candy. Plus it would be rude to leave," Stated Niki.
The friends agree. The man walk out hold three dolls all about he size of a hand. The girls
notice that the dolls look exactly like them and they have never been in this part of town nor seen
this man. Scared the girls took the dolls and ran away. While running Ally falls and scares her
right arm on of his stones.
“Oh I dropped my new phone on his porch,” cried Ally.
“Sorry you are on your own.” reply her friends leaving her behind.
As she turns back to the house she suddenly remembers this old mans face, she does not
know where she just remembers it. The man sees her coming and steps outside, leaving his door
open. Ally reaches the porch grabs her phone, and then the man pulls her inside his house.
“So do you like the dolls?” Questions the old man.
Scared if the man is a murder she agrees. The man tells her how he made the dolls by
himself by memory. Then he shows her step by step how to make her own dolls.
“You seem scared of me. Is this true?” Asks the old man.
Ally does not know what to say yes or no. Then Ally thinks of her friends, what they are
doing and how bad of friends they are for just leaving her. Mean while in her friends minds they
are wondering what is taking Ally so long, she just needed her phone. They decide to wait another
five minutes and see what happens. After those long five minutes pass they decided to call the

4. cops The cops came to there house, the three girls told them what happened and told them were
the man lives. It had been about seven minutes and Ally has still not decided whether to say yes
or no. She finally came to a conclusion .Just as she is about to say it the cops barged though the
mans' door. They took him away in cuffs but he screams something that makes everyone want to
hear his story so the man began.
“I am so sorry girls; I did not want to scare you. I thought you would remember me. So
anyway back in the day I was a doll maker. I remember you girls clearly Ally, Lily, Niki, and
Ashlee. You four girls requested that I make four dolls that look exactly like you. I said they
would be ready in a week but then in that short week my business went bankrupt. I promised you
girls those dolls so I intended to keep my promise. I finished the dolls but you never can back and
I never saw you again. Until tonight. I had kept those dolls safe for years and was so happy you
came to get them. That is why I had those dolls that looked exactly like you; see now reason to be
freaked out. If you do not believe me ask your parents and I also can show you the order form,"
the old man finishes.
The man got out the order form and showed it to everyone. Finally they all believed him
and he no longer had to hold on to those dolls and he felt hundreds of pounds lifted of his
shoulders knowing that he delivered his promise since he had always been a man of his word.