A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings Magical Realism

The Art of Magical Realism
Imagine being able to read a story that seemed realistic in the beginning, then fiction once the authors describes a character that is able to envision the future. Magical realism enables authors to have characters in their story break the real life rules and portray magical elements within a realistic setting. From the early 1920s to the end of the 1950s, magical realism was only used in paintings, which was the process of incorporating mysterious elements into everyday life. It was not until the beginning of the 1960s, that magical realism was applied to literature by Latin American writers, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was well recognized for his story, “A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. As this movement
This story is about a lady that dies of fright when an intruder breaks into her home and returns to life with a different attitude. Many argue that this story can be categorized into many different works of literate, and magical realism is one of them. This is an example of magical realism because the story takes place in a real life setting and just when one assumes nothing magical will occur, Aunt Bernie dies, and returns to life. In the story, the narrator says, “After Aunt Bernie’s funeral, the family gets a call that their Aunt Bernie’s body is missing from the grave, and the next day when they arrive at their home, there she is.” Aunt Bernie’s resurrection after death symbolizes a magical occurrence that is impossible to happen in real life, which the author uses to represent the magical aspect needed to enable the story to be seen as magical
This story is based on a boy named Jonas, who breaks into Wall Street because of his ability to envision the future. After impressing the Vice President who interviewed him, he meets the Managing Director and discovers that he is not the only one on Wall Street with the same magical power. “The Eyes of Wall Street,” can be argued that it takes place in a realistic setting due to the real life occurrences that Jonas experiences throughout the story, such as receiving scholarship offers from Ivy League Universities, planning to see his family after the semester, and having friends. However, the story combines magical elements when Jonas enters the interview with Mitch from Delta Capital and envisions the exact future of Google. In magical realism, authors attempt to make the magical situation as normal and straightforward as possible, enabling the “real” and “magical” elements to be accepted by readers. In “The Eyes of Wall Street,” my intention was to make the situation where John and Jonas both envisioned the same exact future normal as possible in the eyes of the readers. In the story, after John envisioned the same exact future for Yahoo’s stock as Jonas, John says, “Wait, so you thought you were the only one?,” enabling readers to believe that the form of magic being used is excepted and normal in the setting of the