To us, magical is something that we think we can do very easily. What we don't realize is that magical elements are things that we dream about and that we have fantasies about. Realism to us seems boring. We disappoint ourselves a lot because we look for things to happen and they never do because they don't exist. Alice Hoffman made this book a clearer understanding of magical realism.
Fiction is a mixture of the real and unreal.
From reading this book, I have learnt that magical elements don't necessarily stick out clearly from the real element, but if readers comprehend them they will later tell what one has read was fiction. I really enjoyed this book. Many characteristics of magical realism were expressed in this excerpt. I would recommend this book to readers of all ages. The elements in this book were very easy to comprehend.