In another type of story, this reaction would simply be the fantasy-action hero's resolve to beat the bad evil spirits. This story, however, is far more realistic, and there is even some question a to whether or not the ghosts are real. The governess convinces herself that the children, Flora and Miles, can see the ghosts and are pretending not to out of some sort of collusion with them against her. She fears the ghosts not for herself, but for the corrupting influence she believes they are having on the children (and the influence the two individuals she believes them to be had on Flora and Miles in life). Yet one very possible interpretation of the novel is that the governess is the only one who actually sees the ghosts, and may even be hallucinating. At one point, when confronting Flora about the ghost, she remarks, "I quailed even though my certitude that she thoroughly saw was never greater than at that instant" (James, 140). In this way, the magical realism disrupts the narrative by increasing the ambiguity James has created with the frame and double first-person narrators (in the frame and in the manuscript). In Like Water for Chocolate, on the other hand, the ambiguity is far more subtle and is not an aspect of the narrative as a whole. The ghost of Tita's mother most definitely appears, and even lights Pedro on fire. The elements of magical realism here are certain and paramount to the story. Tita falls in love with Pedro, but cannot marry him because she is expected to take care of her mother. When Pedro marries her sister in an attempt to at least be closer to Tita, her grief is transmitted...
This is the first instance of this fantastical ability or byproduct of Tita's cooking, which appears several times. There are also other instances of Tita's mood possibly -- and likely -- affecting the things around her. In this story, magical realism is used to reflect the mood and enhance the narrative of the movie, rather than disrupt and question it is it does in the Turn of the Screw. There is even a possibility that it drives the plot; when Tita's sister becomes ill late in the movie and eventually dies, it is possible that Tita's cooking -- not through poisoning but through the seeping-in of years of pent-up frustration, anger, and betrayal -- is responsible for causing the ongoing digestive problems that eventually kill her.
The other qualities of a superior being remained forbidden thus making the reality of their imperfect world even more difficult to bare. Borges used the invisible reality in his short stories to speculate on some themes that were on people's minds since the beginning of human civilization. He used his writing skills to create a work of fiction that made the world of existential questions possessing men's minds became real
Badlands Formalism Meets Realism in Haunting, Childlike Badlands Terrence Malick's 1973 film Badlands blends formalism and realism to produce a genre film (crime, American, gothic, romance) that is at once self-aware, genre-adherent, genre-breaking, realistic, cinematic, artful, and genuinely objective in its depiction of an a subjective childhood experience. The film's sound and editing contribute to the overall feel of the film, which is deliberately romantic, innocent and haunting -- as though the
Mark Twain's realism in fully discovered in the novel The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, book which is known to most of readers since high school, but which has a deeper moral and educational meaning than a simple teenage adventure story. The simplicity of plot and the events that are described in the book look to be routine for provincial life of Southerners in the middle of the 19th century. But
extend the lines, if necessary, without being wordy. Three specific instances of irony in "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been" are: a) ____The title: no one ever asks Connie these questions. b) ____Connie is the one preyed upon in this tale, but she invites in this demonic provocation. c) Arnold Friend's remark about holding her so tight she won't try to get away because it will be impossible, is an ironic
Thomas took the ashes and smiled, closed his eyes, and told this story: "I'm going to travel to Spokane Falls one last time and toss these ashes into the water. And your father will rise like a salmon, leap over the bridge, over me, and find his way home. It will be beautiful. His teeth will shine like silver, like a rainbow. He will rise, Victor, he will rise." Victor
Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Point-of-View -- the author presents the perceptions of the villagers who live in isolation and are suddenly shaken by the arrival of someone so unlike them in stature and appearance. First, the women, then the men, construct an ideal from the tallness and overall attractiveness of the drowned man. He represents a myth, which mingles with their collective sense of
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