ging one useless object into another taught me to search for happiness in knowledge which serves no practical purpose. Certainly, I hadn't found this happiness before my metamorphosis.
             Above all, my ambition was aroused. Soon the magic kit no longer satisfied me because in the meantime I had learned to read, and on the cover I read the demeaning phrase "The Little Magician." (Halpern 347)
             It would simply be easy to read through this and merely see it for a bit of history through the mind and eyes of our narrator and subject of the story. If that is all that truly appeals to you as a reader then so be it. However, I would be remiss
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