Conclusion: Re-visioning the World from the Inside Out

Abstract

That books influence readers is not a new concept. Literature transforms our lives because it imagines our greater potential, models a better, more evolved state of being. Such imagination has never been more essential at a time when our existence on the earth as we have known it has become endangered. This strong statement becomes reality if we consider the rapid changes to most ecosystems we have observed even in the last decade. We are in need of an imaginative transformation effecting a change of our behaviors from mindless to responsible, from passive to participatory, a transformation deeper than learning to separate our trash and take the recycling to the curb.