Magic Pictures

Pictures are lines and dots that reminds us of something. It's not the actual thing but it is a illustration that is made to resemble or represent something. Some pictures are abstract, so you can't really tell what the artist wants the art to represent, some are portraits and it would be very clear to know what it is suppose to represent, unless the artist that made the art was bad at art. The picture on page 356 is a ostrich in a house. At first glance you wouldn't feel weird. But then you think to yourself, why is there a ostrich in the house. This is the magic of magic realism, at first, everything is normal and ordinary because the story is in the ordinary setting that we are familiar of. Then, something unfamiliar happened, in this case, an ostrich. We only know it's weird after we give thought to it because the magic realism writing induce us into a familiar world that we would not doubt as being unreal but when we really think about it, it's awkward. In An Old Man With Enormous WIngs, we didn't seem to feel unfamiliar until the falling of the old man with enormous wings. This is because we enter the story through a familiar setting, a rural coastal area, but something unfamiliar happened and at first we wouldn't care much and be very surprised of the landing of a winged man because our brain is in the state that anything happens in this familiar setting must be familiar and ordinary until we give thought to it.