Christopher Bunker

Aberrance Christopher Bunker

Is perception the same as reality? Is Ben really crazy if he perceives himself going crazy? Is his mother actually dead just because he attended her funeral- his younger brother Chase beside him, staring at her makeup covered face? And what do we think about Aberrance? The girl who looks realer than life. A daydream standing in front of Ben, tempting him with an alternate reality; scaring him with her surreality. Are you even real? Well are you, Aberrance? Ben is a high school senior looking to move past the death of his mother and the pain she left behind. But when his mother died, she left problems that Ben can't ignore: problems that further divide him from his younger brother, Chase. Is Aberrance an escape? Do her radiating eyes and knowing smile somehow represent a way out for Ben? Or perhaps, Aberrance is not an answer. Perhaps, she poses the largest problem of all: a problem of identity, fear, and most of all- perception.