Blog Task #1: Magical Realism Discussion Questions

Answer the following set of questions. Pay attention to the keywords in the question
stem to plan your answer, and to the grading indications of each to ensure you are
meeting the requirements.

1. Why does this short story classify as "Magical Realism"? What elements of magic
appear in the story?List two examples. What elements of realism are included as well?
List two examples.( /4 K /2 I /1 C)
- To begin with, let me describe about Magical realism first, it simply is a genre of
narrative fiction. In which express a primary realistic view of the real world while
also revealing magical elements. The story The Old Man with Enormous wing
exist many unnatural creatures such like an old man with the wing. The two
example of element of magic in this story are An old man with the wing and The
spider girl, who got infected by a lightning bolt and turned her into a giant
tarantula. And for element of realism are including a detail mention about how an
old man look, he look like an old man but has a big wings on his back

2. Complete the following chart:

The man is a(n) Textual evidence with paragraph number

Angel Hes an angel, she told them. He must have been

coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that
the rain knocked him down. Pg. 1 Paragraph 3

Animal The whole neighborhood in front of the chicken coop

having fun with the angel, without the
slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through
the openings in the wire as if werent a
supernatural creature but a circus animal.
Page 1, Paragraph 4, Line 9

Beast She was a frightful tarantula the size of a ram and

with the head of a sad Maiden. (Describe the
characteristic of a girl who transform into a beast
spider, tarantula.)
Page 3, paragraph 2, Line 5

Man There were only a few faded hairs left on his bald
skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful
condition of a drenched great-grandfather took away
any sense of grandeur he might have had.
 (Describe how an old man looked.)
Pg 1, paragraph 2, Line 3

Dream she kept on watching until it was

no longer possible for her to see him, because then
he was no longer an annoyance in her life but an
imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea.
(Page 4, Last paragraph, Line 14)

Other (Magic) A fearful thunderclap rent the sky in tow and through
the crack came the lightning bolt of brimstone that
changed her into spider. (describe the transform
magic)
Page 3, paragraph 3, line 9