Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Why I Love Fantasy

Today in class we were talking about why some people love or hate the genre of fantasy. I'm most definitely in the first category. I think fantasy is such an amazing genre, and that the most creative people in the world write fantasy.

I love fantasy because it completely stretches my imagination. It takes language that I use every day and paints a beautiful and different world in a way that I don't think I ever could. Also, fantasy lierature is never the same. They do not always have an unrealistic and "happy ending" that is so populated among the fairy tales. Fantasy stories are not predictable, which keeps me reading and hooked until the very last page. Fantasies usually have morals and hidden meanings, and because the way they are written, the morals stick with me much longer.

Fantasy is such a beautiful genre, and I am eagerly looking forward to studying this unit!

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