ROAR Post # 4 Slam by Nick Hornby pg 184-245

After having meetings with Alicia about her being pregnant, with his mother, her parents, and other strangers, Sam is starting to want his old life more and more as the story progresses. Although, at the same time, Sam was starting to get closer to Alicia's parents as this story developed. Instead of using last names with the, they got so close that they started using first names with one another, even though her parents were already using Sam's first name. Further on into the story, Sam falls asleep again to wake up into another dream. This dream was the same as the one before, where he is starting to feel more omnipresent. After meeting his future with Alicia and his baby, Sam starts to talk more with her family, such as her closest siblings. He also starts to spend more time with his child, and at the same time, his baby has his first words in the story. As he is in his dream, Sam comes to the point where he doesn't even remember his child's name. Then comes the point where Sam is at the end of his dream, having conflict on what to do next, and to seem like he's not from the present, being the past for Alicia. All this starts to get confusing for Sam all at the same time. By the next chapter, Sam admits that he is going to have a baby named Rufus, and also admits that is all that readers will have to know. Now he starts to know more facts about his dreams and reality, such as that he will be getting a baby, and that his mother is going to have one, which doesn't bother him at all because he already saw it coming in his dreams. Later on, in the skate park, Sam finds out that Alicia was in labor, about to give birth to his son any minute.

"Oh bloody hell, I thought. I don't really know my kid's name." (Hornby, 210)

After reading this quote, I thought to myself "FINALLY!!!" because i always hear British people say bloody hell as another way of swearing. It also reminded me of Harry Potter because they were British too. Although, this may be stereotypical because I'm not sure if British people actually say it, or it might just be a way of being funny. Another funny thing that I found about this quote from the text was that Sam didn't know the name of his child until the next child came. Even if it was in a dream, Sam was in a dream, meaning that he had the power to control, or maybe not, not all people do. After thinking all this about dreams, I started to remember that someone told me one day that dreams are based on one's experience and memories.