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House Taken Over By Julio Cortazar
Imagination, Reason, and Fear Everyone has been introduced to fear at least once in their life. In “House Taken Over,” Julio Cortazar explains the outrageous precautions the narrator and his sister, Irene, go through due to his imagination complicating a noise he hears in his house. Imagination overcomes reason when one is full of fear. The narrator believed that someone was taking over his house because of a noise he heard, but he had no evidence or proof. He imagined the worst because he was afraid of the possibilities that could affect him and Irene. In particular, while the narrator was walking through the house he heard a noise and his fear led him to believe someone was in the house: “[I] Leaned on it [the door] with the weight of
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