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The Infinity Mirror - Online Term Paper

The Infinity Mirror

"Tularecito" is a myth about truth. Tularicito, just a character of that
myth, is the focus for this glossed over fable. Steinbeck draws on this
form of genre to present the idea that we are all a part of what happens
to others, based upon our nature.
The image presented of Tularecito is that of a demon, an idiot savant, a
boy with a gift from God, and that gift's cost. He is a freak, a dangerous
misfit, an innocent who does not need the constraints of reality.
Tularecito is a test. The test is one of moral caliber. It is a test of
the souls of the characters who overshadaow Tularecito.

Pancho is a man that is both holy and sinful. His purfunctory act of
church going becomes true belief ...

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transforms into a
disadvantaged who has been gifted with talent. Tularecito becomes a man at
the age of six, "The boy grew rapidly, but after the fifth year his brain
did not grow any more," To Franklin, Tularecito is grace, and graceless.
He is talented in all things of any physical strength, and well proficient
in the creation of beauty, and an artist in the care for life of nature.
The touch of Tularecito brings beauty, and life, and love to the world,
until he becomes enraged, (should anyone endanger what came from the touch
of his hand). Franklin looked into Tularecito's mirror and saw what
Tularecito was.

Authority views come from several directions. While one teacher sees
Tularecito as a Pavlovian dog, needing to be trained, the other sees him
as an idiot savant, needing only to be pushed into harmless fantasy. This
leads a third view of Tularecito, one of a simple minded killer that needs
to be locked up for his own good.

Tularecito is viewed as less than human from ...

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Added: 12/10/2006 06:02:57 AM
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