It is natural for teenagers to have unrealistic dreams. What would you say are the benefits and disadvantages of such fantasizing? Elaborate it with references of “Going Places”.

No doubt, the teenagers have ideals. They have no experience of the world. They dream of doing things that the adults would never dream of doing. Dreaming is essential and useful. It was because of having dreams that great inventions and discoveries were made. Joan of Arc was a young girl. She dreamed and heard voices. She felt they were telling her to do things that looked impossible to achieve. Because of her dreams, she drove away the British from France. Those who only dream and do nothing become lazy and idle. They are impractical in life. Our dreams can help us, but they should be practical and we ought to try to realise them.

Sophie is a daydreamer. She can imagine things and her imagination runs wild. She had watched Danny Casey. He is her hero. She is always dreaming about him. She begins to think of meeting him. She is so engrossed in her dreams that she herself is convinced that she actually met him and he had promised to meet her again. She goes to meet him on the bank of a canal. There, she waits for him. He does not come. She is disappointed, but all this goes on in her mind all the time. She pictures him meeting her in the arcade once again, but all her dreams are impractical. She has not made any effort to realise them.