What is reality? Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines it as: something that exists independently of ideas concerning it; something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive; something that constitutes a real or actual thing, as distinguished from something that is merely apparent. So, what defines reality? I mean can anyone, in all honesty, construct a concrete reproduction in which to turn and point proclaiming once and for all, "There, I give you reality in the flesh." The answer simply is no. For as, the character, Dr. Igor stated ". . . Other things, however, become fixed because more and more people believe that's the way they should be (167)." Reality is nothing more than a socially accepted opinion a perception inherently subjective. This very principle is the driving force behind Paulo Coelho's introspective novel, Veronica Decides To Die.
Veronica Decides to Die is an interesting story about a young woman called......
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