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The Question of Reincarnation and “A Yellow Flower” There are always going to be people who question what happens to a person upon their death. In his story “A Yellow Flower” Julio Cortazar approaches this subject from a unique point of view. In this story, a man finds himself reincarnated during his own life in what he calls “Some slight imperfection in the mechanism…, a re-embodiment incarnate, simultaneously instead of consecutively”(53). In this story a retired city worker, though some twist of fate, discovers himself as a boy on the number 95 bus in Paris. This discovery leads to obsession with the boy named Luc and becomes involved in his life and with his family. This intimate relationship with Luc’s family lasts until his death, which a suspicious mind could blame on the retired city workers desire to end the cycle of his life. The question of reincarnation is not a new one but there will always be discourse on this topic as no one can definitively prove or disprove it. The idea tha