I think the
phrase you are referring to is a willing suspension of disbelief. On its own, this is the idea
that we can suspend or set aside our logical and realistic thoughts and ideas in order to
embrace something that is outside our experience. It might help to think of it as it relates to
attending a theater performance; you know that what is happening on stage is not real, but the
actors and crew invite you to suspend your disbelief in order to enter into the world being
created on the stage. This suspension allows you to feel and experience what is happening as
though it were real. Without suspending your disbelief, you cannot try to experience what you
dont quite understand, because you are bound by your past ways of believing.
There are numerous examples of this in ; so many, in fact, that
one could argue it is a theme of the story. Calvin sets aside what he knows of the Murry family,
and this allows him to make friends with them and be taken...
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