Magic Pictures

Look at the illustrations in your textbook on pages 356, 359, and 361. Choose one, or write about all three. Describe the picture(s) using specific sensory details. Then explain what elements of magical realism are in them (if any). Can you relate anything in the pictures to the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”?

• The illustration that I am going to talk about is the one on page 361.
• For the sensory details, the first word that comes to my mind when I see the illustration is "nature". There is a blue sky as the background, with green forests right under the blue sky. Up front, we can see a row of rocks that was formed by nature herself. However, the next word that comes into my mind is "weird" or "strange". This is because on the left had side of the illustration, there is an artificial like moon. The moon is mainly white, but contains faint colors of orange and yellow. This is supernatural, or "magical", because it is extremely unlikely for a moon to be sitting on one of the rocks that seem very high above ground, in nature. 
• My first thoughts of the moon was that, "the moon fell from the sky". But after some connection, we can think of it as mankind and other man made things taking over and destroying nature. Perhaps, a long time ago, people believed that it was impossible to destroy nature, for nature was Earth itself. However, right now, the possibility of mankind destroying nature is extremely large.