Power of Imagination
What is the power of imagination? Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein was saying that imagination is the most powerful tool or weapon because imagination has no limitations while knowledge and weapons have limitations. The man who created the atomic bomb one of the most dangerous weapons in the history of the world says that imagination has no limitations. Albert Einstein was one of the smartest scientist of all time and was a Jew who played a very big role in World War II and the holocaust. Imagination plays a big part in Pete Hamill’s Snow in August. Hamill and Albert Einstein have the same view on imagination. They …show more content…
When Michael Devlin had to overcome obstacles In Snow and August he used imagination to get over the obstacles. Michael Devlin had to go to Eight O’clock mass during a huge blizzard. When he was walking through the blizzard without his mittens in freezing temperatures he used his imagination to get through that very tough time. “The moving over a piled ridge, Michael imagined his father in the snows of Belgium. Many Americans had been killed there by the germans in what was called the battle of the Bulge. Thousands of them. He saw his father in full uniform, with a helmet and heavy boots, carrying a gun and the snow driving even harder than this Brooklyn blizzard, and the wind whining, with the goddamned Germans somewhere up ahead in the blinding storm: as close, maybe, as MacArthur Avenue as near as the synagogue. Unseen. Hidden. Ready to kill” (15). When Michael was walking to mass on that cold morning he did not have mittens on. He had to be mentally tough he had to have the right mindset to get through the storm. That is where the imagination came in. Michael didn’t think he was in …show more content…
When Michael learned that all of the Falcons got out of jail, Frankie got a gun, and they were going to kill Michael Devlin and his Mom. Michael to get his revenge on Frankie used his imagination. “Joining hands in a dance with Mary Cunningham and the count of Monte Cristo soaring and swooping and breaking for third, up, rising up, full of rain and fire and salt and oceans, all the way up, chanting the letters that named galleons and cowboys, pirates and Indians, borne by the letters swept through golden skies, about the crazy world above Brooklyn, above Ireland, above Prague, above the fields of Belgium” (331). Michael was a few hours away from being killed by Frankie and the Falcons. He was down to his last chance at survival and he used the only weapon he knew how to use. The biggest and greatest weapon in the world, his imagination. He decided to use the Golem from the story he heard from the Rabii. A normal kid would not believe in such a story but, Michael was right there when the story was told next to the Golem so he was able to truly believe that the golem was real and he could use him for himself. When Hamill named all the places and said that Michael was above that shows that Michael was really in those places when he was trying to summon the Golem. He went to Ireland and Prague because that was the only way he could beat Frankie. He
What is the power of imagination? Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” Albert Einstein was saying that imagination is the most powerful tool or weapon because imagination has no limitations while knowledge and weapons have limitations. The man who created the atomic bomb one of the most dangerous weapons in the history of the world says that imagination has no limitations. Albert Einstein was one of the smartest scientist of all time and was a Jew who played a very big role in World War II and the holocaust. Imagination plays a big part in Pete Hamill’s Snow in August. Hamill and Albert Einstein have the same view on imagination. They …show more content…
When Michael Devlin had to overcome obstacles In Snow and August he used imagination to get over the obstacles. Michael Devlin had to go to Eight O’clock mass during a huge blizzard. When he was walking through the blizzard without his mittens in freezing temperatures he used his imagination to get through that very tough time. “The moving over a piled ridge, Michael imagined his father in the snows of Belgium. Many Americans had been killed there by the germans in what was called the battle of the Bulge. Thousands of them. He saw his father in full uniform, with a helmet and heavy boots, carrying a gun and the snow driving even harder than this Brooklyn blizzard, and the wind whining, with the goddamned Germans somewhere up ahead in the blinding storm: as close, maybe, as MacArthur Avenue as near as the synagogue. Unseen. Hidden. Ready to kill” (15). When Michael was walking to mass on that cold morning he did not have mittens on. He had to be mentally tough he had to have the right mindset to get through the storm. That is where the imagination came in. Michael didn’t think he was in …show more content…
When Michael learned that all of the Falcons got out of jail, Frankie got a gun, and they were going to kill Michael Devlin and his Mom. Michael to get his revenge on Frankie used his imagination. “Joining hands in a dance with Mary Cunningham and the count of Monte Cristo soaring and swooping and breaking for third, up, rising up, full of rain and fire and salt and oceans, all the way up, chanting the letters that named galleons and cowboys, pirates and Indians, borne by the letters swept through golden skies, about the crazy world above Brooklyn, above Ireland, above Prague, above the fields of Belgium” (331). Michael was a few hours away from being killed by Frankie and the Falcons. He was down to his last chance at survival and he used the only weapon he knew how to use. The biggest and greatest weapon in the world, his imagination. He decided to use the Golem from the story he heard from the Rabii. A normal kid would not believe in such a story but, Michael was right there when the story was told next to the Golem so he was able to truly believe that the golem was real and he could use him for himself. When Hamill named all the places and said that Michael was above that shows that Michael was really in those places when he was trying to summon the Golem. He went to Ireland and Prague because that was the only way he could beat Frankie. He