Monday, February 21, 2011
Magic pictures
In the story Old Man With Enormous Wings it shows us three pictures that show magical realism. One being a ostrich statue's head peaking out of a ware house door, and curious kids watching from the side. To me this picture isn't that fantasy like, it seems morel like an adventure to me. The kids seems to be shocked by the ostrich and seems to want to get near. The second picture which I would say is most likely to come form a fantasy is a picture of three men ridding on a fish. First of all the three men look perfectly normal on the Giant fish and with no surprised or amazed facial expression at all. Second the fish is out of water and in a bucket standing up right on it stomach. Fish can't breath without water, so it doesn't really make sense that the fish is still a live after it was pulled out of water. Last but not least the fish is larger in size than all three of the men combined! How is that even possible its not like the fish is a whale. However the picture is very convincing if you don't pay that much attention to little facts and details. The third picture is a sculpture of a moon placed on top of a rocky mountain. This is actually really commonly seen in folk tales or children's books. It is because in the old days people didn't know where the moon or sun came from. So they thought they came from a behind the mountain and would stay up on the mountain for a certain period of time each day. Therefore the picture shows that, with a sculpture of a moon just sitting on rocks. This is magical realism because we all know that the sun and moon are in outer space so it is impossible that the moon sits on a mountain some where.
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