Imagination In Joyce Carol Oates Where Is Here

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Has there ever been a person who hasn’t woken up from a horrible nightmare or imagined the worse? Imagination can turn into fear because, when you have a dream, it can turn into a nightmare because your imagination overcomes reason and reality. Imagination is like a fantasy, something made up in your mind, it could be fear or it could be the opposite. Imagination can take over reason, because your mind goes into its state of its own, and believes whatever they are imagining, like if it was real. In the story “Where is here” by Joyce Carol Oates, shows and explains, how imagination takes over all reason. “Where is here” is a Gothic story about a stranger that wanted to see his old childhood home. As the unknown stranger looked around the

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