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Creativity In The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

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One way The Secret Life of Walter Mitty exposes imagination is through expressing creativity. According to the University of Malaysia Perlis, “Imagination is the ability to form mental images, phonological passages, analogies, or narratives of something that is not perceived through our senses”(Murray Hunter). The creativity in this film is expressed through Walter 's daydreams and how extreme they are. One particular daydream was a fight scene with his boss. Walter is bullied by Ted, his boss. and he dreams of getting back at him. Walter gets made fun of for holding his jelly man toy he got from his sister and Ted tries to pull it away from him. This gets them flung out of the LIFE building and onto the streets of New York. Walter rides

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