Hey Nostradamus!Part Three: Heather

In the third chapter of the novel Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland, the author introduces a girl name Heather.  Heather works as a court stenographer and spends most of her day drifts away by listening and writing in the courthouse.  As her boredom life’s goes by, she met Jason at the Toys R Us while standing in line to pay for her merchandise’s.  Then, they continued their conversation at Denny’s.  After conversations led to the next, they bonded together.  As Jason entered her life, those boredom days vanished into mid-air as the morning fog disappeared at sunrise.  It has been almost three months since Jason disappearing; she keeps questioning herself, but it seems to be useless and clueless.  Sometimes, Jason’s dad stopped by the to house or called to ask Heather, if there were any news about Jason, nor no answer from the police.  Later she followed an images of Jason that been created by Chris from a software to Washington, yet the analog appeared to have Jason similarity.  She ended up met a person that has closed figured of Jason, but is not Jason.  Her desperate become concerns; she stopped by Jason’s apartment and packed most of his personal belonging into a zip-top bags.  While there, someone phoned her, as she picked up, the line went empty.  Later, someone phoned her again and this time she able to talk to the caller.  Her name was Allison and said, she got a weird message from and unknown feeling; she gets this number from a weird sounds that keep telling her to calls.  One day, Heather ended up meeting with Allison, and the message that she received was from Jason.  Heather heard the message from Jason once before and is the same messages that Allison telling her.  Later, she talked to Reg about the messages that she received from Allison, but Reg never believes in physic.

After reading this novel, I can understand that in finding an answer to our lost love's one, people like us in need of some hope, and if any clues can set us free from an unanswered questions we willing to do what it take to get it.  I feel her pain, because Jason was everything to her, and at her ages, there is hard to find someone that can understand her as much as Jason.  With his disappearing, she was lost and left with an unburdened questions.  I hope she can find her answer.  I felt her pain, when she tried to call someone that hold an answered to his disappeared and no answer, or a called back.  How can someone play such a game to other people life? Specially, in Heather situation,  she needed help like any of us, but that one person never call back.  I also felt her frustration, if I was her, I probably threw the phone away and go on with different clue, if any.