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Yuqin Ge Prof. Joshua November Final Draft 4 4. 8. 2013 Imagination and Reality Individuals live with twain imagination and acceptedity. Often, imagination is based on man and root honesty. They utilize their imagination to image something they have never seen to fulfill their curiosity or something they are fervent to realize. In The World and Other Places, Jeanette Winterson depicts a boy, a fictional character, who imaged flying to many places in his childhood. When he grew up, he joined the air Force and complete the reality was not as fantastic as he had imagined.In Bumping into Mr. Ravioli, Gopnik uses his miss Olivia and her fanciful playmate Charlie Ravioli, who is always too fussy to play with her, to reveal a deeper justness about(predicate) mod York. Gopnik explains how imagination rout out be beneficial in clearing reality. Gopnik and Winterson both confirm that imagination is beneficial because it backside help individuals to develop their indistinguishabi lity and to have playfulness. One the opponent Gopnik contradicts Winterson, suggesting that imagination can also let individuals feel disappointed when imagination can not gimmick reality.Individuals can develop their identity element with imagination. Gopnik confirms Winterson on people can develop their identity through an complex number sense. In Wintersons story, the storyteller was disappointed because reality was so contrasting than his fantasies in his childhood. He hypothetic the real places and the people would be like fantasy as he imaged however, his reality let him down. He lost himself and tried to construe a specific answer to his identity, How shall I live? (287) Until one day, the fibber met an overaged woman in the park, he realized he could develop his identity through his imagination.Although the old woman was in poverty, she was happy, Happy. The kind of happiness that comes from a steadiness inside. This was genuine. This was not someone who had turn ed off from the bolted door. It was open. She was on the otherwise side. (288) The storyteller imaged there was a bolted door and the old woman was on the other side from him, because the old woman knew her identity and her expectation clearly. Here, the narrator learned he could not find his identity because he was not sitisfied with his expectation from the old woman who was on the other side.He realized and developed his identity due to the usage of imagination. Gopnik confirms Winterson that Gopnik develops his identity through his daughters imaginary relay link Charlie Ravioli who is always too busy to play with her. Olivia creates an imaginary friend based on the real creation where she lives. There is a big difference between children like Olivia and children from out of invigorated York. Olivia lives in sore York which is busy, tight and huge, and the children who live outside of the cities live in a world where they can be free to play and do as much as they want to. Charlie Ravioli is a typical naked as a jaybird Yorker, fit, opinionated, and trying to break into show business. Gopnik notices that almost every single person in New York is as busy, or may pretend as Charlie Ravioli. Gopnik is also a New Yorker, and he realizes, busyness is our art form, our civic ritual, our way of being us. Many friends have said to me that they love New York at one quantify in a way they never did before, and their love, Ive noticed, takes for its object all the things that used exasperate themthe inquisitive combination of freedom, self-made fences, and paralyzing preoccupation that the city provides. (160) He realizes that the busyness in New York is more different than before. Gopnik realizes himself as a New Yorker like Charlie Ravioli, and then he develops his identity. Wintersons developed his identity, and then he continued to seek the answer How shall I live? much deeper through his imagination. Gopnik also develops his identity and he populate s himself and New Yorkers well. Both Winterson and Gopnik confirm that individuals can develop their identity with imagination. Gopnik confirms Wintersons that individuals can have fun with their imagination.In Wintersons story, when the narrator was a child, he and his family were too poor to travel anywhere, however they spent clock on an imaginary trip in their living populate. They used their imagination to fly away to discontinue places such as Bombay, Cairo, Paris, New York and escape the reality of poverty that they faced (283). When they reached destination, they enjoyed themselves in their trip. The narrator stated, When we reached our destination, we were iris to stand up and stretch our legs. Then my sister gave us each a blindfold.We put it on, and sat quietly, dreaming, imagining, while one of us started talking about the strange place we were visiting. (284) Although they had never been to these places and didnt know the appearance of these places, they considere d these locations as amazing places to travel to. The narrator had so much fun flying an sheet with his imagination. Likewise, in Gopniks essay, his daughter Olivia has fun with her imaginary friend, Ravioli. A paracosm is an extension of imaginary friend, it is an imaginary world.He mentions about his daughter that The existence of an imaginary friend had liberated her into a paracosm, but it was a curiously New York paracosm (160) Author Gopnik uses the word paracosm in his essay which describes a detailed imaginary world which his daughter creates. His daughter has made herself her own little world with her imagination, kind of a mini New York. In this world she lives the life of a New Yorker with a busy life and with friends who have no free time to sit down and play with her.Although she is unlike the other children who play, have a nap and pay a visit to the Central Park Zoo, she is too travel to share them, that she dose have an independence hearty life, by virtue of being to busy to have one. (154) Olivia enjoys herself in her imaginary world, so she is too hurried to share them. Olivias childhood is different from other childrens. She creates her own world which based on reality. She enjoys herself with her imaginary friend in her own world. In her site, she regards this imaginary game as fun and she has fun with this creating world.The narrator had fun in his fantastic travel and Olivia enjoys herself and has fun with their imaginary world and friend. Therefore, Gopnik confirms Wintersons on individuals can have fun with their imagination. Imagination is a double-edged sword. It can benefit individuals but can also make individuals disappointed. This depends on if it is based on reality or not, Gopnik complicates Wintersons negative stance on reality. In Wintersons story, when the narrator was a child, he and his family would spend time in their living room on traveling with their imagination.They used their imagination to fly over better places, such as Bombay, Cairo, Paris, New York and escape the reality of poverty that they faced (283). After years of dreaming of these places, the narrator joined the Air Force and physically traveled to these places he imaged traveling to in his childhood. After all his traveling, he stated, Bombay. Cairo. Paris. New York. We have invented them so many times that to tell the truth will be a mortification (289). After traveling to all these amazing places, he was disappointed because he was unable to tell his amily the truth that these places were not as amazing as they had imaged them to be. He was disappointed because he had imaged these places in his childhood with his imagination, and they didnt match his expectations. Unlike the narrator, imagination benefits Gopniks daughter, due to the fact that her imaginary world is based on reality. In Gopniks essay, he illustrates how beneficial the imagination is. Gopniks daughter, Olivia, has an imaginary friend Mr. Ravioli, who is too busy to play with her.Gopniks sister certifies that children create an imaginary playmate not out of trauma but out of a serene sense of the possibilities of fiction-sometimes as figures of pure fantasy, sometimes, as Olivia had done, as observations of grown-up manners, assembled in repose and given a name. (155) This means imagination is not a trauma, is beneficial to help Olivia cognize the reality. Olivia begins to understand how to organize her experience into stories through her imagination.She created an imaginary friend based on her observation of the adults living in New York. This creation of the imagination is rooted in reality because her imagination can match the reality where she lives. Gopniks daughter creates an imaginary friend who benefits her to cognize the reality however, in Wintersons, the narrator disappointed because the reality didnt match his expectation. Gopnik contradicts Winterson on imagination can benefits individual when imagination depends on reality. I magination is a double-edged sword.If individuals are able to connect imagination with reality, they will be able to develop their identity and have fun with their own world. But if individuals cannot match imagination with reality, they would be disappointed, just like the narrator in Wintersons. In Gopniks essay, because Gopnik match reality with his daughters imaginary playmate, he develops his identity in New York. Winterson confirms Gopnik, because the narrator developed his identity through his an imaginary bolted door. Both Winterson and Gopnik confirm that individuals can have fun with their imagination.