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Essay / The Power of Imagination - 1048
Imagination is an extremely powerful force. He has the power to create, comfort, ruin and destroy. He possesses any ability assigned to him and can save a person from a terrible fate if used actively and seriously. This vastly overrated part of our most fundamental being can change everything we know about our lives and replace it with better alternatives for ourselves. As Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage said, “I reject your reality and substitute it for mine. » In The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Neftalí uses his extremely vivid and powerful imagination as a tool to escape the harsh reality he finds himself in, creating a better-edited edition in which he can take solace. boring life, but he never gets bored of what he does or what he is forced to do. This is evident from the beginning, when Neftalí imagines the numbers floating on the page of her homework (2). Ryan already establishes Neftalí as an artistic and innocent figure who uses her imagination to escape the bleakness of her childhood, through the creative recreation of the things that cause her so much grief. The numbers symbolize the boy's often wandering mind and demonstrate how joyous and distant his thoughts can be. He even stops doing his math homework due to the new absence of numbers, showing that he truly believes that what he imagines is the truth. His ability to change the world around him with the pure power of thought is extraordinary and develops with age. Neftalí not only uses the power of his mind to escape boredom, but also to draw strength and power from the objects he so lovingly observes and describes... middle of paper... He n There would be no art, no poetry, no beauty at all. Life would have no meaning, and it seems that we often neglect the importance of this creature that lives within us, growing and shrinking as it is used or misused. Neftalí, unconsciously or not, understood the crucial importance of his imagination despite opposition and was able to use it to combat his personal demons. Without imagination, the boy's spirit would have been broken long ago and he would have become like his brother, shriveled and lost. We owe a lot to our imagination. More than we know. Works Cited Ryan, Pam Muñoz and Peter Sís. The Dreamer. New York: Scholastic, 2010. Print. Savage, Adam. “Adam Savage Quotes.” Find the famous quotes you need, ThinkExist.com quotes. 2011. Internet. October 23. 2011. .