One Day Fenny Mr Freeman Analysis

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Mr. Freeman really believes in expressing emotions, setting them free, in the form of art. He describes art as crucial to surviving, “If you don’t learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!!!” His last name could somehow represent his thoughts about art this way. Another possibility is that he praises imagination a lot. “No imagination. What are you, thirteen? Fourteen? You’ve already let them beat your creativity out of you” (page 11). People say that you can roam freely with imagination. Albert Einstein, once, said, “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” Therefore, another reason could be because he admires imagination so much and he has a lot of it himself as implied on page 11, “One day Jenny

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