I enjoyed the examples of magical realism we saw in
class because they made it easier for me to understand the style of writing.
The videos “Amelie” and “Big Fish” showed the same kind of rushed perception of
the world found in Carlos Fuentes’ “Aura”.
Fuentes’ opening where Felipe is reading the advertisement and traveling
to the location includes an extensive amount of detail, which also occurred in
the movie clips. The sentences are also
a little choppy and often short, which mimics the main character’s thought
process. Fuentes use of magical realism
is different from the Gothic books earlier in the course in that there is less
perceived danger or threat. The reader can see these techniques because the
novel’s 3rd person perspective which also manages to put us inside
of the main character’s head and addressing us as if we are actually in the
story.
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