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literature may make the readers thing of something personal that gives us a sense of reality. Through John Updike’s Rabbit Run, Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, Margaret Atwood’s Happy Endings, James Joyce’s Araby, Patrick White’s The Vivesector, and Jorge Luis Borges’ Pierre Menard, Author of the ‘Quixote’ readers come to find a sense of reality within the characters portrayed through these works. In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, we see Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom constantly running from his problems throughout

Ana Bahena English 102D Izenberg November 2, 2017 Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Jorge Luis Borges is widely known for his bizarre short stories that question all aspects of life and our world. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is no different putting into question everything we believe to be true. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is a narrative account of an individual who has discovered the fictional land of Uqbar in one of the version of an encyclopedia. Throughout the story, the man keeps investigating more on

Beaten, broken down, ramshackle, and vandalized. This is what you see now, an insignificant piece of architecture. I see a home my family spent more than 60 years in. It became my sanctuary. My father’s childhood home in San Luis Potosi, Mexico helped me embrace my Mexican culture because it was where I first tried authentic Mexican food, met my ethnic family, and saw so much change in my family’s life. First, I remember the day I tried my aunt’s Mexican style rice, and I instantly fell in love

Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer who lived between the years of 1899 and 1986. Borges is known for his short stories that use elements of magic realism to leave the reader wondering about themselves and the world they live in. Magic realism can be defined as giving the story “dream-like quality” which is “captured by the presentation of improbable juxtapositions in a style that is highly objective, precise, and deceptively simple” (Menton 412). Borges used this to his advantage by taking

Throughout the history of humanity, human have shaped and formed different realities and identities. Each reality and identity possess its unique purpose which has contributes to develop human history around the world. The Greek philosopher, Plato, discusses that some identities are “eternal forms”. However, the film, “The Matrix”, suggests that some realities are not “eternal forms”. If realities are temporal, identities could also be temporal forms. According to “The Matrix,” the relationship

dinosaurs and different species that took place about 65 million year back. For ages, scientists believed that this event was caused due to the atmospheric and topographical changes that invaded on the dinosaurs’ food supply. But, in the 1980s, researchers Luis and Walter Alvarez discovered a layer of iridium on the earth’s surface. It suggests that a comet, space rock or meteor effect might have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. In the 1990s, researchers found the enormous Chicxulub Crater at the tip

A New Perspective Jorge Luis Borges is a well known author for his unique style of writing that is unlike many others. In one of his widely known work titled as Ficciones, we see the particular magical surrealism style Borges is immensely popular for. In this collection of short stories, Borges demonstrates a theme of reality vs. fantasy. Each unique story has a plot twist that makes the reader think out of the ordinary in order to understand the message that is hidden within the fiction. Borges

In “The Book of Sand” by Jorge Luis Borges, the idea that time and life as a whole are endless and unreasonable yet are limited and full of meaning at the same time. “In this house are several English bibles, including the first John Wyclif's. I also have Cipriano de Valera’s, Luther’s-- which, from a literary viewpoint, is the worst-- and a Latin copy of Vulgate.” This quotes shows that the narrator displays that he owns over 9 different bibles including rare ones. The knowledge he usually collects

The writer Jorge Luis Borges is known for his inclusion of references to other literary texts in his own writing. Occasionally, Borges seems to make references to real works, but they do not exist. He also makes references to works that exist, but he incorrectly represents the plot or characters of the text. There is an argument about whether or not Borges’ reference to Liddell Hart’s work in The Garden of Forking Paths is a true misrepresentation and whether or not the misrepresentation should be

Interestingly, it is via Borges, a well-known master in the creation of literary labyrinths, that we are able to find several possible explanations for these inner circularities, for instance, through his recurrent references to the trope of the sphere. Take some of the short fictions that constitute his 1941 volume The Garden of Forking Paths, namely ‘Lottery in Babylon’ and ‘The Library of Babel’. Not only does Borges tell us that the Babylonians ‘obey the dictates of chance, surrender their lives