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In the words of the great author, George R.R Martin, “I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.” In this same way, readers are invited to live through the eyes of the characters in books. Reading and analyzing multicultural literature is one way that teachers can give their students the gift of living multiple and varying lives. Literature is one art form that has the power to submerge readers into different lives, times, and places around the world and transform them into different people when they are done. Global literature blurs the lines of national identities and are texts that all readers can find a something to relate to or a common ground. The blurring of national boundaries is more represented in 20th-century literature because people were starting to leave their homes to start new lives in places all around the globe. Now, there is almost no place in the world where there is