LSAT 104 | Section 3 | Reading Comprehension: Q24

RC Question 24 Explanation

DISCUSSION: If you’ve read fairytales, you’ll know that miraculous things happen. The hero seems to be stuck in a hopeless situation, when an old man gives him a magic bag that has an infinite supply of gold.

Or a girl is lost, and can’t find her kidnapped brother, when a friendly wolf give her magic seeds that grow into a map.

Nothing seems unreal when anything can happen.

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1. The fact that a child can read a book doesn’t tell us why there’s nothing uncanny in that book. There may be some uncanny books that young children are able to read.
    
   We need something unique to fairy tales.
2. Many books are purely imaginary, yet aren’t fairy tales. We need something specific to fairy tales.
3. CORRECT. Finally, something specific to fairy tales. If anything can happen in a fairy tale, then nothing can be surprising.
4. Freud doesn’t say this. This uses a different sense of uncanny. Freud mean “bizarre, other-worldly”. This means “interesting, amazing”.
5. Repression was mentioned in lines 12-13, as something that causes uncanniness. Freud never said repression has anything to do with fairy tales.