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The points Frye makes about literature and the imagination are all very true, and can be seen everywhere all the time. Even the most unseemly of stories contain many of the elements that Frye has outlined in his book “The Educated Imagination”. The three stories “Who Needs It?” “The Rain Came” and “The Dead Child” will help to show that this is true. While they are merely random stories from different cultures, they all have significant literary and social aspects to them. In the following, they will be looked at using several of Frye’s concepts, including: (1) A literary education enriches the world of the imagination, which expands the horizon of belief and makes it more tolerant and efficient. (2) The world of literature has no reality except that of the imagination, yet it can remind us vividly of the life we know. (3) The constructs of the human imagination tell us things about life that we can’t get any other way. (4) The imagination gives us a greater dimension of experience than we may gather in life. It is two dreams: (a) a wish fulfillment (b) an anxiety dream. (5) Not only is the imagination the basis of the associative language used in literature, but also what our whole social life is