Setting Exercise 2- Creating Character Through Setting

The Bedroom
As the lights are turned on, the room is illuminated. This is no ordinary room. The walls are painted blue from floor to ceiling, but in varying shades. One side is painted as day, a light periwinkle sky interrupted only by the occasional sponge-painted cloud. The other side is painted a dark, royal blue, gold stars twinkling down in groups, twirling in clusters and varying in intensity. The centerpiece of the ceiling is a moon and sun combined, the minty silver of the moon contrasting with the hot white and yellow swirls of the sun. Each stationary, representing the balance between dark and light that is natural in the universe.
All over the walls are mementos of the past, a poster of Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat orange and black smiling down from his perch in a gnarled tree branch. A dark-haired Alice walks through the forest of mushrooms, a bottle pleading “Drink me!” at her feet. A bottle cap nailed to the wall orders to ‘Hide for a few days,’ like a fortune cookie foretelling of impending doom. An oversize pirate flag that functions as a curtain for the sunroof blows in and out in the slight night breeze. The roses that act as a border at the top of the wall each hold a memory. One a congratulations, one a valentine’s gift, and yet another a 16th birthday decoration taken home to dry as a mark of the occasion. The list goes on.
The breeze continues and disturbs a swatch of fabric on the wall, sending the shards of glass glued down in the shape of a heart ringing like shells, picked up at the shore. The door pushes open, and in comes a German Shepherd, making her way towards the red Papisan chair in the corner. She hoists herself up, and slowly starts to drift to sleep.