Journal 68: Magic Realism

      I can totally understand if people have trouble understanding magic realism because it is hard to indentify. It is similar to just friction story, supernatural things appears but it is not the same. Magic realism is very unusual things that appear in normal life and people take it for granted or does not think it is weird. For inexperience readers, they will have a hard time just to understand the text and finding deeper message to the story would be even harder. Young readers usually like things to be handed to them so they don’t have to think. The author of magic realism makes people felt weird because the attitude characters have toward the “magic.” It would also be hard to new readers to distinguish between friction and magic realism.

       I don’t think I have a hard time with magic realism because it is quite easy once you get the concept, same with any other thing in life. I am a person that reads for entertainment so I think it might help on understanding the concept. Some people might have a hard time with magic realism because they don’t really know what is magic realism. That happened to me when I first encounter magic realism too.