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    However‚ he begrudgingly admits that this altered state of mind‚ this daydream‚ is temporary and is still not good enough to truly perceive the truth; “the fancy cannot cheat so well” (Line 73). A daydream is considered cheating‚ like Plato’s “falsehood” (389b). Up until the end of “Ode to a Nightingale‚” Keats continues to ply on the senses with images of the country side in “meadows…stream…hill-side…valley-glades”

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    connect the stories‚ so the story was ordered and doesn’t let reader confused and have the feeling of confused. Thurber naturally connected the story by clues. For example‚ at the beginning of the story‚ Mr. Mitty was driving the car while in his daydream he was going through the

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    lives by changing the perception of reality. First‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”‚ by author James Thurber tells the reader about a story where a man tries to escape his extremely mundane life with numerous fantasies. For example‚ Walter Mitty’s daydream comes as he waits for his wife and picks up an old copy of Liberty and visions himself fighting Germany while volunteering to pilot a plane normally piloted by two people. "The cannonading has got the wind up in young Raleigh‚ sir‚" said

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    sleep. However‚ there are complicated studies that varies‚ like the stages of sleep that falls to REM sleep. There is also NON-REM sleep that is a contrast for REM sleep and the types of dreams. These types of dreams are Lucid and Non Lucid dreams‚ Daydreams‚ Nightmares and Normal dreams‚ surely one of your dream or my dream falls to any of these type of dreams. Figure out what are the significant meaning of the usual dream. II. MEANING OF DREAM: Different meaning of dreams. Literally‚"dreams are

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    childhood. Sachiko‚ the main character in the story‚ is on a train while she daydreams. She is what we call an idealist‚ she sees the truth in reality‚ and she knows that she cannot rely on. She imagines the perfect life in her head‚ she reminisces about when she was child and watched puppet shows about the firefly hunts. The clothes were a bit different but was disappointed when she saw the Kimono’s she would be wearing. In her daydream‚ she got to the place and she saw the fireflies after a long wait. She

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    start from left to right. Children‚ every time you read and English book you must start from left to right. Teacher show the cover of the Big Book and asks the pupils opinions about it and introduce the word daydream. Class‚ look at this picture. Why did the man fall? “Daydream is thinking about something you like while awake” Respect Courage Give reason Big Book Activity 1

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    a glimpse in to Connie’s thoughts‚ her lonely isolation form her family‚ and her daydreams of boys and love songs. Connie’s negative‚ always nagging mother makes her fear growing up and being miserable too. Greg Johnson interprets the story as “a cautionary tale‚ suggesting that young women are ‘going’ exactly where their mothers and grandmothers have already ‘been‘” (166). One of Connie’s foreshadowing daydreams brings to light ominous events to come: “Connie wished her mother was dead and she

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    Saying Goodbye Is Hard to Do In my teen years‚ Flutter was a daydream. During high school‚ I had a part time job at the movies. While I made popcorn in the lobby concession stand‚ my guy friends made out with girls inside the theater. In my small southern hometown‚ a girl taking another girl to the movies didn’t seem like a possibility so I daydreamed about what it would be like to be a boy. I watched how boys were treated better than girls in school‚ at the movies‚ everywhere. When I moved to

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    simple but tough problems. Sammy‚ the main character in “Secret Life Of Walter Mitty”‚ obviously hates his job at the A&P‚ and he finally quits after his boss does something that he thinks was unfair. Walter Mitty is tired of his boring life so he daydreams to get through it and to escape from his overbearing wife. Both characters are similar but the main difference comes in their actions. Sammy faces his problems head-on while Walter Mitty just tries to forget his problems instead of doing something

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    triggered by something in the real world that sets him off daydreaming until something else from the real world snaps him out of it. What connections are there between his daydreams and the incidents that lead him in and out of the daydreams? 5. What qualities does he possess in his fantasies? Give proof from the daydreams. 6. What traits does he possess in his real life? Give proof from the story.

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