Once upon a wind swept place, there lived, in a beaten down house, surrounded by other people’s waste, a old man. In this story, the author talks about how the man is trying to clear away the waste that surrounds him. One night the man dreams of a lush green forest and when he wakes, he realizes that the dream was only a dream. The reality is that outside is, “…a wide wind swept place, near nowhere, and close to forgotten, that was filled with all of the things, that no one wanted.” At the climax, the man is inspired, and as the reader we are pulled along by the emotional artwork, and the unique trash. The man doesn’t want to live in other people’s waste; He is cleaning up when he finds a metal flower. This metal flower inspires him to build a metal forest that is not quite like his dream, but is as close as he believes he can get to it. The object is a broken metal lightbulb that is shaped like a flower, yet it is still powerful enough to ignite his imagination. With this idea he builds a metal forest. The trash is unique in this book. It is not ordinary trash. There are a bunch of cool things such as, springs bigger than his head, tubing, sheets of metal, and wooden planks. All of this the man does not realize, because he is trying to clear it away and burn it all up. The artwork is beautiful and emotionally inspiring. When he is happy the artwork looks happy; When he is sad the artwork looks sad. The artwork reflects his emotion. The trash is also more pronounced when he is sad. For example, when the man is dreaming a happy dream with a forest there is no trash around and you can see through his window that the sky is really clear. In contrast, after he wakes, and when he realizes that the world outside is still the same, the man looks sad, his house is cracked, and surrounded by trash and bad weather. secret