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Imagination

            
             Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien, Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo, and The Gangster We Are Looking For by le thi diem th y represent characters who use their imaginations to escape the hardships of reality and into a place of comfort and stability. American soldier Paul Berlin often imagines his life prior to Vietnam, allowing himself to break away from the cruel reality of war, same with Mine Okubo who is placed in a Japanese-American internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Her freedom was taken, and the only way for her to escape was through her remembrance of the past and what life was like before the camps. As for the young Vietnamese girl in The Gangster We Are All Looking For she is in search of finding her place and voice in America and in doing so uses her imagination to get away from the tough reality of her new life in an alien land. The use of a characters imagination is vital in their ability to escape from the harsh reality they currently are placed in, without it there is a tough time in placing themselves beyond current hardships. .
             The imaginations of people allow them to get through situations they are not accustomed to or want to be apart of. Soldiers in Vietnam were faced with many harsh conditions and situations. They were forced to fight in thick, dark jungles against an enemy that was unidentifiable. The soldiers used their imaginations to disorient themselves from the war and into a place of comfort and stability; this was their only way to escape. One soldier in particular named Paul Berlin often thought about his life prior to Vietnam in the United States. He becomes fed up with all the evil situations he has been in during the war so he begins to dream his way out of the war. The mere possibility of reaching Paris is good enough for him to keep dreaming of better things. An example of Berlin imagining better things is when he holds the phone to his ear as he calls home, he remembers the past with his family.


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1. On Imagination

It is hard to give a definition of the word imagination, because its concept is very wide and abstract. ... Be that as it may, imagination plays an important role in the shaping of human mentality. ... Some people may suffer from a complete loss of imagination while the others cling to daydreaming. Imagination is also an important factor in the development of humanity in general. ... In modern-day times, imagination remains an important human ability. ...

  • Word Count: 754
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning

Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. ... The theoretical obstacle we face is that the imagination, like the bodies of our students, are subject to age and experience related changes and there could be no blanket curriculum to develop the imagination. ... Egan's main point of this section was that to engage imagination, we must engage emotion. ... When we engage emotions, we are engaging their imaginations. ... It is in our min...

  • Word Count: 2250
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3. Power and Imagination

Power and imagination can lead to suffering and death but the ends always justify the means. ... Imagination is the ability to form mental pictures in your mind. ... After close examination of the story of creation, power and imagination play a huge role in the story. ... Unfortunately none of them, Adam, Eve, or the serpent, used their imagination to consider the consequences of their actions. ... Power and imagination play an average role in Antigone. ...

  • Word Count: 1138
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  • Grade Level: High School

4. Phantasie

Imagination is more important than knowledge. ... Imagination encircles the world." ... Imagination comes before knowledge which makes imagination more important than knowledge. Imagination is more significant than knowledge because knowledge is gained from imagination. ... Knowledge starts out as imagination. ...

  • Word Count: 528
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

5. Sociological Imagination and C. Wright Mills

Sociological imagination, a term introduced by sociologist C. ... Although Social Imagination does not encourage the idea that sometimes people do not have choices, they do have options and responsibilities. ... This can be better understood through one the three components of Sociological Imagination: biography. ... However the three components of the Sociological Imagination should not be seen as different points but as a relationship between them within society today. ... This is part of the historical and social structure components of the Sociological Imagination. ...

  • Word Count: 994
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

6. Haroun and the sea of stories

For imagination is a part of reality. ... Creativity is an expression of imagination. ... Sengupta who "has no imagination at all...". ... His trip to Kahani helps him see how reality contains imagination and restores his faith in imagination. ... Imagination is a part of life. ...

  • Word Count: 953
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

7. Strike a Balance v/s Reason and Imagination

Strike a Balance v/s Reason and Imagination What is more important, logic or creativity? ... For this poem, the first three stanzas, in fact, is of imagination. ... For Kubla Khan, the entire poem, in fact, is of pure imagination. ... In other sense, it also describes what imagination should be like. Sometimes, imagination is destructive, according to Romanticists. ...

  • Word Count: 1620
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

8. Short Stories

A very common aspect is imagination. To write a story, the author needs to have an imagination. ... Imagination is required to write a story. ... In this instance imagination is used to cheer Randa up. ... Imagination is something we all poses and use. ...

  • Word Count: 833
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  • Grade Level: High School

9. Positive Thinking

As children we have such an active imagination and everything can be solved. ... Unfortunately as we grow older this sense of imagination is no longer there. We are afraid that someone might laugh at our ideas and therefore we stop this imagination from becoming a part of our lives. Imagination does not stop as we mature into adults. ...

  • Word Count: 436
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

10. What is the self

I was curious to read into the pursuit of goals and the importance of imagination. ... Part of this new understanding was seeing how we have to use our imaginations to envision our goals. ... I was drawn to his ideas of imagination simply because if its complexity and its relationship to goals. As I mentioned I thought of imagination as a creative tool. ... It is like all the goals I set out to achieve were lies but it was just my imagination. ...

  • Word Count: 1029
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

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