Ossie's Imaginary Journeys

After the death of Hilola Bigtree, Ava and Ossie began to live in a “fantasy world.” Ossie had made up an imaginary boyfriend for herself and became obsessed with him. One night, Ossie decided to leave Swamplandia and head off with Louis Thanksgiving. In the end of the story, Ava, believed Ossie’s story of her boyfriend and began to have imaginary visions of the surroundings and of the Bird Man. After the death of their mother, Ava and Ossie used these imaginary and fantasy visions in an attempt to conceptualize life after their mother's death. If Hilola had still been alive, Ava and Ossie would not have had such distorted, imaginary visions of the world. Hilola would have led them in a more rational direction instead of such a radical, and