Amaryll Chanady is another writer on the subject. Scott Simpkins has thoughts on this subject, too. Going on what these writers have said, a person can find many purposes and characteristics of magical realism. With magical realism, everyday things are suddenly filled with a new meaning and beauty that has never before been seen. It tries to make people look beyond the obvious reality of what something is and search deeper to find a new way of seeing that object.
Several things are still quite confusing.
One type of thinking is not necessarily contained to one time or one area. There has to be a lot of similarities between them. Magical realism can be found in just about anything. It can be in paintings as Roh said and many other things as well. All a person would have to do is look around himself or herself at his or her surroundings.