Pamella's Forest

"They walked into the yard and towards the truck. Pamella stopped to look at the corn. It didn’t seem possible, but the stalks were actually taller than ever before. They seemed to tower like the giant trees Pamella had always longed to see. Now, even in the broad daylight, it seemed like the lower portions of the stalks faded away into impenetrable darkness. The field was truly a forest." --Pamella's Forest

Pamella lived alone with her mother, constantly surrounded by a great ocean of corn fields. In Pamella's storybooks, the forest was always either a place of wonder or danger. Was this forest of crops more sinister?