Blog Entry #11: Final Paper

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Domenick D’Angelo

Professor Smith

ENG 102

Final Essay Option Two: The Meaning of Creatures

       Since the beginning of time, humans have tried to escape reality as much as humanly possible. Whether it’s with the assistance of a strong imagination or with the use of drugs. In terms of literature people have produce so many works with the mentioning of supernatural beings or activity. The escape from reality or discussing the supernatural gives people feelings of enjoyment on things they normally would never see in real life.  Comparing the real world to the supernatural, its pretty clear the supernatural is a whole lot more exciting. Being able to fly, having telekinesis, or in the case of the film “Spirited Away” being in a spirit world, seems a whole more exciting than going to school or work. People tend to lose their imagination when reaching into adulthood, but with supernatural literature it gives a childhood like imagination during adulthood and that’s why I think there will always be supernatural works of literature.

      During the film, I couldn’t help but to think about compare Chihiro with the novel Coraline that we read during the semester. Both young girls who well aren’t really happy with their current situation; moving into a new town, a new house, and having to attend a new school. Both Chihiro and Coraline enter a supernatural world that at first frightens

them, but then they grow to get used to it, just like anything else in life. With supernatural beings either looking absolutely nothing like humans, or that look like humans but have some type of supernatural ability or looking a little different physically. Whether its

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having button eyes in the case of the novel Coraline, or a boy who can fly and turn into a dragon like in Spirited Away. It’s no surprise that the trill of the uncommon is the reasons why these works exist and things similar to it will continue.

       One thing with works of the supernatural whether it’s a novel or a film, is when they have supernatural beings that also have a “normal” life in the “real world.’ For example, Sabrina The Teenage Witch or the television series Charmed, they’re both television shows of witches that go to school, work, and keep their precious secret hidden. Situations where the combination of natural and supernatural mesh, makes the supernatural seem possible and wanting to have these ability even mores because now you’re favorite actor/actress “has” those powers. I wish I could be like Sabrina The Teenage Witch she got virtually every and anything with just a point of a finger. With an insane schedule of having a full-time job, part-time job, and being a full-time student, I would love to get basic necessity completed with a point of my finger.

       The mystery of the supernatural and the thrill it gives me and the same emotions for other, assures me that these works will continue to be created and may get better and better with time. Although I know most of these aren’t humanly possible, I still have some type of hope that maybe it actually can. Watching X-Men films makes me wonder that may something within humans DNA all these things can be possible. Even though I’ve been told by numerous science teachers and professors, my active imagination is what I listen to and even if people tell me it isn’t possible in some way I’d like to think it is and we’re all just not looking close enough.