In the book, Boy's Life, by Robert R. McCammon, there are many realistic and fantastic events and ideas. Something that is realistic means that it exists and can normally be perceived. On the other hand, something fantastic means that it doesn't exist and can't normally be perceived. The major theme of the book, keeping the magic of staying a child, is obviously a fantasy, but the things that happen to Cory Mackenson, the main character, …showed first 75 words of 1068 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1068 total…be the same. The author does a very good job in tying it all in making it very interesting for the reader. The fantasy makes it more exciting and interesting but when the reality is mixed in with that, it develops many symbolic things in the book that really have more than one meaning if thought about carefully. The contrasting of reality and fantasy adds a twist that makes it different from many other books.