The Relationship Between Fantasy And Fantasy

And I don’t know what it is.” (137) throughout the story, getting more and more concentrated towards the end. Charlie engages in spirals of thought, often leading in him to abandon some letters, “I have to stop doing this, I am getting to sad.” (168) and his negative character development begins to be the driving plotline of this story.

It is due to Charlie’s frequent arguments with his Mother and advice from his Father that he learns to be diplomatic and control his emotions. For example, when Charlie’s mother is angry at him for sneaking out of the house at night Charlie could’ve just kept quiet and taken his punishment, but he kept arguing back out of anger, further winding up his mother until she forced him to dig up a hole, fill it back up again, and then go to bed without dinner. After this his father gives him the valuable advice to sometimes let the other person win the argument and make it better for both parties, which Charlie takes to heart. Learning to control your emotions and be diplomatic even when you disagree is a key part of growing up and maturing.

Charlie’s friends even take advantage of how nice he is. They always make him the root of their jokes. When Charlie asks a barber shop owner to move his illegally parked car, the owner laughs at him and just throws him the keys to the car and tells him to move it himself. The whole town takes advantage of Charlie though, not only his friends. In the supermarket a woman asks to cut in front of him inline and then ends up having a cart full of groceries. This is Charlies breaking point. He starts tensing up, you can tell something is happening. All of a sudden he starts talking in a different voice, and finds vagaclean in the woman’s cart that cut in front of him. So to take his anger out on her he gets on the store microphone and announces she has vagaclean in her cart. We learn this new personalities name when he is drowning a young girl in the water fountain who disobeyed him earlier. When the girl says she is going to tell her father on him, he announces that he is Hank. After this change in personality he starts going

Charlie begins to hang out with Sam and Patrick and is getting in the routine of going to football games and then going out afterwards to celebrate. Afterwhile he catches feelings for Sam and the way he expresses them further deepens our understanding of his depression. Instead of going with the flow and not telling her about the dreams he had about her, he professes his love for her in the form of sharing his dreams and telling her just how he feels. Perhaps, this isn’t all his fault because when Sam tells him that she’s too old for him, he becomes obsessed with his love for her and can’t stop thinking about how perfect she is in his eyes. The only thing this confession has done for him is make his feelings grow and send him in a downward spiral of

Develops the idea that reality can be deceptive. It can hold hidden dangers and often are a false premise to start a quest. This links to

Well, his mom is very strict and treats Charlie unfairly. His father stays out of the conversations Charlie has with his mom, so he is no help. So Charlie went to the library to read, and his mom spazzed at him. “Before I can close the front door, my mother has slapped me. Hard and sharp. Much like Mrs. Wishart, but with considerably more venom. It stings for a long time. I touch my face, shocked”(Silver 94). She full on slapped Charlie in the face, for going to the library! Her excuse was that there is a killer on the loose, but no one knows that for sure. It's what comes after this that showed Charlie’s courage. “Go to your room! She screams. I can’t! There's a wasp in there. What? There's a wasp in there! That's why I couldn't get changed! I don't care! She yells, pointing toward the back of the house. Well, that's been patently obvious for some time! Excuse me? She leaned in, aggressive, speaking through her gritted teeth. Goddamnit! I yell. I'll go and bloody get stung”(Silver 96)! Charlie knows that his mother is treating him unfairly, and he decides to talk back to his mother, trying to defend his case. He even swears at her. He stood up for himself and left his mother stunned. She has treated him unfairly most of her life, so it was about time she got a taste of her own

Charlie Kelmeckis is described as a “wallflower.” He is socially awkward and likes to keep to himself. He also really enjoys reading and writing. Charlie cares deeply for others, but has a lot of guilt about past events. For example, Charlie believes that the death of his Aunt Helen is his fault, because she was killed in a car accident on an errand to get Charlie a birthday gift. Charlie has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression. His mental instability was mostly caused by being sexually abused by his Aunt Helen before the age of seven. Charlie experiences flashbacks of his Aunt over the course of the movie, but all are portrayed in a positive light.

Charlie experiences drastic changes throughout the story. All of them are mentally due to the experimental operation he had. In the

You might have watched The Lord of the Rings or The Harry Potter and have lost in the world full of magic, unusual creatures, and wizardry. Or you might have read One Thousand and One Nights, or The Jungle Book or A Space Odyssey. You may find them adventurous, imaginative, and fascinating but it is due to the element of fantasy which is common in them. Fantasy is defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica as “Fantasy, also spelled phantasy, [is] imaginative fiction dependent for the effect of strangeness of setting (such as other worlds or times) and or characters (such as supernatural or unnatural beings)”. Psychologically, fantasizing is either conscious or unconscious. Fantasizing is not specific to people with mature minds but every age group can do it. Children grow up fantasizing Santa Claus,

It is not just Young Charlie living in a dream, for while Old Charlie is accusing Young Charlie of this, he himself presides in a state of illusions. He just sees things from the opposite angle; for him, “good” is a mask for evil and reality lies in a hellish place, almost the exact binary opposition to Young Charlie’s small town world. In fact, the whole family is separately locked in their own dream world; this is apparent when Charlie comes to town and things are obviously amiss. There are undeniable clues that Charlie is hiding something that the family remains oblivious to. The fact that Charlie shows up, out of the blue at the same time the authorities are searching for a widow murderer does not seem strange to them. Maybe the connection gets lost, but surely they must wonder about the amount of money that Old Charlie carries; the father who is a banker and spends his free time solving mysteries does not ask any questions. Then there is the moment at the dinner table when Charlie goes off in a fit of madness and pretty much confesses to the crime and all his sister says is that he should refrain from saying such things like that at the ladies conference. The child Anne has some intuition, but she spends the majority of time hiding in fictional stories. This dream like state definitely disconnects the family members from the world and

The dreams individuals pursue possess tremendous power to impact their lives and personal identities. John Steinbeck utilizes his 20th century novel Of Mice and Men to highlight how simple, genuine dreams can help one find a sense of self-worth and happiness. On the other hand, in his 19th century novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens underscores how individual’s greatest desires can rob one of his or her true identity and lead him or her to misery and self-loathing.

Conflict Between Illusion and Reality Human life is based upon the elements of fear. Our bodies respond to fear, through inducing the fight or flight response, followed closely with the release of epinephrine into our body and multiple reactions to control high levels of stress. Another common element that is often associated with such a response, is an increased level of imagination. Continuous disappointment in life and matters simply not living up to our expectations can lead to individuals resorting to the creative use of their imaginations towards creating an alternative reality to compensate for the life they are currently living. However, this so called reality is nothing more than an illusion.

His meltdown in Alan's office one could have seen from a mile away, with it the ultimate heralding of displacement for Charlie's pain, and final straw to let Charlie live his life alone. (Displacement is but one of many defense mechanisms that involves shifting aggressive or hurtful emotions away from one’s self to a more “acceptable” or less threatening outlet.) Yet for most who watched the movie most likely, Charlie didn't get immediately better right away to their surprise. In honest words taken from an episode of House I once watched, he uttered a line that rings particularly true in this circumstance: "We tell ourselves it helps. To make [them] talk about it. To help... heal. When all you've done is make [someone] cry." After Charlie's reveal of his true past he seems to be by all standards progressing. That is until he sets out to kill himself, if not by his own gun then a police officer's. In all three main areas of his mental make-up Charlie has been both affected and ravaged, his entire being but a husk of what he accomplished four years prior. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is illustrated through Charlie as a life-changer, a psychological diagnosis that alters your entire core of being without proper therapy or treatment. (Diagnosis in

Silently, my senses begin to abandon their rationale…who is to say then what is real? The world that we live in, the reality, which we are a part of, is small and thus limited. That is why, in his infinite capacity for potential improvement, man created fantasy. Fantasy is BIG! To a certain extent it is more imaginative, more exciting, and more fun. Fantasy is like a lake where man throws all his ideas and dreams, and then he dives on in from the springboard of imagination. So, jump in to the lake. Why not? Just make sure that when you jump in to the lake you know how to get back from where you came from. Because, no matter how big a fantasy is, to the point that it somehow changes our perception of what is

This semester we have mostly read fantasy and fictional literature. Fantasy and fictional literature engages and introduces our minds to new ideas and thoughts—things we are not accustomed to. Most individuals are only familiarized with real life ideas and objects; therefore, fantasy and fictional literature also teaches us to have an open mind. Fairies and ogres are fantasy. We will not find them on earth, but we still read about them because they are new creatures. These ogres, fairies, and dystopian/utopian societies teach us many things. They teach us how to critically look at our world and think for ourselves. An ogre, for example, is a very dreadful looking creature, but it may turn out to be one of the nicest creatures. This would teach us to not assess others based on outer appearances. Many adults and even schools contemplate the benefit of reading fantasy and fictional literature, but there should be no deliberation because they can be used to portray and teach countless ideas and themes. Fictional and fantasy literature both help portray different perspectives about many issues that are better said through fictional and fantasy literature than a newspaper. The works we read this past semester have helped me see different issues and perspectives. One issue I saw was what our world may turn into in the future.