Crap Kingdom, By D. C. Pierson

Just imagine being kidnapped, thrown into a clothes bin, and getting teleported to another dimension. The thing is that it’s our trash but you're the chosen one. In the book Crap Kingdom, by: D.C. Pierson, that is exactly what happens to Tom Parking. When he first reached the Kingdom, he expected to see dragons and many other exceptional things that are in movies. However, his expectations he had for the new dimension was nothing compared to the reality of it. His expectations for the new dimension were radically different from a person, place, and thing, which affected his overall mood and tone towards “Crap Kingdom”. At the beginning,Tom was told he was entering a new dimension; he thought of dragons, magic and many other fictional things. When he entered the new dimension he was in water; the first thing he thought was he was the chosen one so he could probably breathe in water. When in reality, he couldn’t breathe underwater at all. Another time this happened was when Tom thought “It wasn’t full of sleeping griffins, either. It was full of cars”(Pierson 39). This shows that Tom was expecting to see many griffins sleeping for them to use as transport but in reality it was full of cars. The cars were different from Earth’s cars; they were older rusty cars that had tons of trash on them
When his friend was the new chosen one he teleported Tom with a new way to teleport. At first, Tom expressed he didn’t like the idea and said “Well I definitely want to go back. Some random soul is, like, piloting me around during rehearsal? I’m going to get kicked out of the show”(Pierson 163). The reason he wanted to go back was because of how dreary and depressed Kyle’s soul pilot was and he expected his to be the same. When he was sent back though, everyone was crying about his “performance”, his much better self made. Also, this shows that he has a distrust towards other