How Does Borges Use To Convey The Idea Of Infiniteness?

It is unrealistic that a teenage boy could survive upwards of 200 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean alongside a 450-pound tiger. But literature does not reflect ordinary life, therefore it is important in the study of literature to separate the two, because literature is not about being practical or realistic, it is about being imaginative. The unreality of Life of Pi allows the Hero’s Journey archetype to be easily identifiable, for example, as literature provides the extremes of scenarios, stretching the capacity of the imagination to the very heights and depths of what the human mind can conceive. Literature provides us with an experience that reality cannot, because in reality, the imagination is limited to what is physically possible, but in literature, the imagination is able to be free. Through understanding the conventions of literature, the individual, in studying more complex works, is able to appreciate the use of the imagination to reach beyond what reality offers us and is able to refine his sensibilities as he recognizes the partition between life and literature.

Similarly to all short stories and narratives, a setting plays a significant role. In this case, the context

The author described things well in this book, but this book was a bit easy to read because she didn’t use difficult words. This sometimes would not allow for you to know exactly how she meant for things to appear.

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During the story the people

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Through a storytelling technique,

This builds of the last theme which reminds people society can't survive with technology alone. “Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality…. So now do you see why books are so hated and feared? They show pores in the face of life.

In this story,

According to the narrator,

In the story The Book Of Sand written by Borges, the magical realism conveys the idea that obsession is a power that can influence one’s choice and actions to the point of fear and dismay. The story commenced with the narrator making a deal with a stranger who arrived at his doorstep. Trading his pension check and black letter Wiclif Bible for a book which he believed held an infinite number of pages, he immediately became attached to the book. Hung up on the obsessive thought to resolve the mystery to why the book was infinite became haunting and lead him into isolation, doubt, and misery. “ A prisoner of the book, I almost never went out anymore.. After studying its frayed spine and covers with a magnifying glass, I rejected the possibility

involved with the main protagonist of the story. This story is a good example of reliable

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He explains everything so well the reader has no problem visualizing the castle and can even feel the chill and smell the mustiness. The narrator is trying so hard to find sunshine and others. He is only aware of these things from old books he reads.

Borges is known as a famous author of magical realism, a genre that combines real situations and real life with fantasy. This undoubtedly has an influence in the way Borges incorporates worlds of fantasy/ dreams/ imagination into his works. Borges creates these worlds by transforming something of such simplicity into something more complex and meaningful. By using these devices, Borges is able to impact the readers by allowing them to imagine them and maybe even change their point of view on that simple thing or situation.