Fantasy/Reality of Tularecito

As Steinbeck tells his story, it is obviously full of metaphors on the basic belief of our society that everything must be the same and reasonable at the same time. Tularecito should never have gone to school. He would have been happy living at home, simple as he was. In the end society takes Tularecito and makes him a monster. Since monsters are not allowed into human society, Tularecito goes looking for a different society that he does belong to, living with the gnomes. Unfortunately this society exists only in h

“Only one thing could provoke anger in Tularecito. If any person, man, women, child, handled carelessly or broke one of the products of his hands, he became furious. “ (Steinbeck, 43).

It is evident that Tularecito was not normal. His actions, which he thought were justified in his fantasy world, were not in reality. These actions caused him to be outcasted from the whole community. Tularecito was just a big misunderstanding. If the citizens of the community could understand his thinking and his rationalization for his actions, they could fully understand Tularecito. When not angered, Tularecito was a beautiful person, if not on the outside, but on the inside, and in this community that’s what counted. Everyone, and everything has a need to be wanted. When shadowed from the community, Tularecito had nothing, nor anything to care about and this saddened him. So he went and looked for something else that could fill the emptiness inside, so he created a fantasy world of his own and he convinced himself it was real.<

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Tularecito Pastures, Martin Tularecito’s, Franklin Tularecito, Miss Martin, Gomez Tularecito, , fantasy world, community tularecito, miss martin,