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Literature. A simple ten letter word. Society as a whole sees literature as their go-to therapist. Unlike physics, literature does not put stories through reactions in which they come out the same on the other side. Literature takes a story of an average man and woman, hits it with intense circumstances, all to get an abnormal story at the end. In simplest terms, as Thomas Hardy said, “A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling; it must have something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experience of every average man and woman." A story must have something that is connected with reality, but must have extravagant aspects within it. Lord of the Flies and SlaughterHouse-Five both show these astonishing circumstances within

Magic Realism is a literary genre that combines two seemingly contrasting elements and fantasy reality by introducing supernatural or unreal elements into depictions of real life. “House Taken Over” by Julio Cortazar is a good example of Magic Realism because it has supernatural feelings and events throughout the story in real life events and situation. An example from the story is paragraph twenty five it explains the sister dropped her knitting because her ball of yarn was on the other side of the house,Irene had never been on the other side and for the yarn to be over has a supernatural or unreal feeling to it. This is an example of Magic Realism because it has a supernatural feel to the event that has happened to Irene, this also feels

Magical Realism became known for changing the way in which one thinks. Instead of seeing the ordinary and mundane, the Magical Realist brings a spark of life to the imagination, which in turn excites the mind of the reader. Magical Realism is a fusion of dream and reality, an amalgamation of realism and fantasy, and a form of expression that is reality

“Bless me, Ultima” and “Flight” both suggest that magical realism/fantasy influences the main characters ability to find their identity. While Antonio, from the book “Bless me, Ultima” uses Antonio’s dreams to show how Antonio’s premonitions of his association with Ultima and her influence on him as a teacher, on the other hand, Zits, from the book “Flight” has the use of time travel to help the Zits discover himself through embodying a variety of people throughout different points in history. These people help zits discover himself through the many different themes they all shine down on Zits. Magical realism enhances the themes of the novels by providing a lesson for the main character after each occurrence.

Magic Realism appears when a character in the story carry forward to be alive ahead of the normal length of life. Also where magical or unreal aspect of a natural part in a different realistic environment and character fracture the rules of our real world. Characters that are portrayed as magical or surreal has a statement that is behind it. An example is Gregor in the Metamorphoses and not only did he turn into a bug but he sent a larger message about human experience. The two stories, A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings and the Metamorphosis, both have a symbolic mean to humanity and realism.

Magical realism is a concept that usually seems to coincide with an unsettling environment. For instance, Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro and Night of the Shooting Stars by Giuliani G. De Negri both focus on the idea of fiction centered around a destructive ambience. Both movies take place in a deteriorating war zone in which the main characters manage to escape temporarily but still witness horrific event that they manifest into their own type of dream reality. Pan’s Labyrinth takes place during the Spanish Civil War where a young Ofelia is immersed in the chaos after being forced to live with her sadistic army captain stepfather. She is then encountered by a fairy owned by the faun Pan, who informs her that she is the long-lost

The conventions of Myths, Fables, and allegory all have magical elements in common like magical realism. But what sets magical realism aside from these genres is that it portrays magical or unrealistic elements in such a way that it is viewed as natural. Matthew Strecher defines magical realism as “what happens when a highly detailed realistic setting is invaded by something too strong to believe”. Some elements that authors use to support magical realism is using unexplainable things/events in the context to be normal, metamorphosis occurring, and not using regular constructs of time.

One of the key elements of magical realism is, the story bears the influences of

Magical realism aids in the development of imagery from the use of Laura Esquivel's descriptiveness when expressing the magical realism moments in the novel. In addition, magical realism tends to intrigue the reader due to the fact that the situations are so real but all of a sudden an unanticipated supernatural event occurs forcing the reader to imagine the scenario. The atmosphere of the novel can be influenced by magical realism likewise. When a celestial event occurs in the plot of a literary work, the atmosphere completely changes from a realistic atmosphere to a fictitious or surreal atmosphere. Magical realism extensively affects character insight in the novel as many of the magical realistic occasions develop around one of the characters. For example, when the soldier, Juan has the ability to smell Gertrudis' passion, this event changed Gertrudis' actions therefore changing the reader's opinion on what kind of person they perceived her as. The themes and symbols in Like Water for Chocolate are impacted by magical realism correspondingly. Magical realism assists in terms of conveying the symbols and themes throughout the novel, Esquivel does this by weaving these literary devices into the magical realistic

Magical Realism is like an avocado; the use is delicate, smooth and beautiful like the outer cream, it’s life-giving juices fill us with joy and wonder, however the truth and reality of the effects of Magical Realism are hard and gritty like the cold, crude pit. Like Water for Chocolate and The Handsome Drowned man are very similar in the areas where Magical Realism is used to show love and change, however they differ in that the events where Magical Realism is present have opposite effects on the characters in the story.

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Magical Realism is, by definition, a story composed of primarily realistic events which are enhanced by supernatural or magical events. Catch of a Death Foretold, a novel by Gabriel García Márquez, holds several occurrences that would classify the book as magical realism. The realistic points of the book are easy to point out of course, a small town, two angry brothers, a devastated fiancee etc… However, the magical realism lays in the details of the book. In the crevices of his storyline, Marquez hides multiple magical components that he uses to remind the reader of the magic within reality. For example, Bayardo San Roman returning to Angela after not opening a single letter from her, Santiago dreaming of the rain that falls at the moment of his death, and most protruding, everyone in the town knowing of Santiago’s fate, besides himself. The idea of anything like this happening is so unrealistic, that it blends seamlessly together to form an interesting and wildly intriguing novel.

Mysticism and magical realism are two terms, too close to each other like siblings. Where there is one, the other is also close by. Something magical always mystifies us, but magical realism does tend to differ from pure fantasy, because the entire motif of magic realism is to blend in magical elements, in ordinary day to day life, which a man can relate to.

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The eccentric. The marvelous. These are just a few words used to describe the genre of ‘magic realism’, which is also known as ‘magical realism’ (the usage of the term, as well as its history, has been debated from the beginning, but shall be bypassed as it is an entirely different topic from what is to be discussed in this commentary). Although Oxford Dictionaries defines it as “a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy”, others have also interpreted the genre in various other ways. However, the genre itself has a set of elements and characteristics that make them its own, which helps differentiate it from fantasy, as written pieces in magic realism are sometimes mistaken to