... sight of the pure and simple joys to be found in everyday living. In both Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Hall of Fantasy" and Robert Frost's poem "Birches," we are guided through a fantastic description of a world where the actual must merge with the imaginative, where our dreams are a sort of therapy for the concerns of daily life. When Hawthorne transports himself and the ... return home, to the people and places that are forever emblazoned in our hearts. Our dreams act in much the same way as this passport; they allow us to make a voyage into the unknown, to see there isn't only one way ...

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