Illusions: The Adventures Of A Reluctant Messiah Summary
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The novel Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by writer and pilot Richard Bach. First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment. The mystical adventure of Illusion: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is about an itinerant flier who flies passengers around the skies above Midwest corn fields in an antique bi-plane. He is unexpectedly joined on this lonely journey by another individual doing the same thing in a 1928 Travel Air--Donald Shimoda. However, it pretty quickly becomes apparent that there is something abnormal about Shimoda. His plane sits in an Illinois corn field appearing factory new, …show more content…
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that”.
When I first read Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah the first thing that I took from the novel was that things where never how they appeared and it wasn’t guaranteed that the way I seen something was how someone else seen it. Very much like how when Donald and Richard where in Hammond, Wisconsin and they where walking around the town and Richard asked why Donald was here and it had appeared that Donald had avoided the question by bring up going to see a movie. But once they were in the movie half-way through movie Donald started asking questions again and annoying Richard.
“I thought about his odd behavior in the theater. "You do everything for a reason, Don?"
"Sometimes."
"Why the movie? Why did you all of a sudden want to see Sundance ?"
"You asked a question. "
"Yes. Do you have an
The novel Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by writer and pilot Richard Bach. First published in 1977, the story questions the reader's view of reality, proposing that what we call reality is merely an illusion we create for learning and enjoyment. The mystical adventure of Illusion: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah is about an itinerant flier who flies passengers around the skies above Midwest corn fields in an antique bi-plane. He is unexpectedly joined on this lonely journey by another individual doing the same thing in a 1928 Travel Air--Donald Shimoda. However, it pretty quickly becomes apparent that there is something abnormal about Shimoda. His plane sits in an Illinois corn field appearing factory new, …show more content…
“Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that”.
When I first read Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah the first thing that I took from the novel was that things where never how they appeared and it wasn’t guaranteed that the way I seen something was how someone else seen it. Very much like how when Donald and Richard where in Hammond, Wisconsin and they where walking around the town and Richard asked why Donald was here and it had appeared that Donald had avoided the question by bring up going to see a movie. But once they were in the movie half-way through movie Donald started asking questions again and annoying Richard.
“I thought about his odd behavior in the theater. "You do everything for a reason, Don?"
"Sometimes."
"Why the movie? Why did you all of a sudden want to see Sundance ?"
"You asked a question. "
"Yes. Do you have an