Neil Gaiman uses the tension from the adult world and the world of children, to show the extreme levels of differences from the natural and supernatural world. When studying the theme of borders, it's easy to recognize the different borders that are present in this novel. There's a border from what the narrator believes his world is, and a border from the supernatural aspect of his childhood. We can recognize how the author uses the supernatural world such as Ursula and her flying bird species, to develop the narrator into his adulthood and building of reasoning skills. The author ends the book with the narrator sitting by the pond, and he doesn't remember any of the supernatural events that were explained in the story. This is a perfect example of how as a child we have a bright imagination and can almost force ourselves into believing something is true, even if it seems unlikely to our peers. As an adult, we become educated in what our real world is, and can judge whether something is real or not, by comparing it to the world we see today. This is a great example of Piaget's cognitive processes, when we go through the perimotor, to concrete operational stage. This is a key sign of development in a child's growth, and the author could have specifically choose the age 7, to represent this period of his childhood. While at the end of the novel, we don't get a clear resolution on whether Ursula was a real creature, whether the vermaints really forced Lettie to go away, and the truth behind the motivations behind his fathers sinking him into the bathtub. This novel showed us as the reader the borders that exist between our natural and supernatural worlds. While our supernatural world seems to get smaller as we grow and develop, the border still exists between the complexity of what we believe to be real, and imaginary.
Dear High School Senior, In the book, "The Transition to College Writing" by Keith Hjortshoj, the author does a great job of including five basic, categorical differences between high school and college. As once being a fellow senior preparing for college, I realize how stressful of a time it can be. It's important to keep yourself calm, and become recognized with the significant differences between each level of education. I'm going to explain two differences, that I've experienced throughout my first year in college, and hopefully you can learn a few tips on how you can use these to your own benefit. One basic categorical difference that Hjortshoj uses in his book is, "While high school teachers are usually generalists, college teachers are specialists." As Hjortshoj explains, college professors don't follow the ideas of high school teachers, as they aren't required to follow the given state curriculum. I noticed this, as soon as I started...
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