Bless Me Ultima By Rudolfo Anay The Ordinary In Magical Real

The Ordinary in Magical Realism
The events that occur in magical realism seem like very peculiar events compared to events in the real world.. Typical events and people in magical realism, like giants and magic spells, are seen as events or people that would never appear in the ordinary world everyone lives in. The way characters react to magical moments with no fear of the event, makes it seem like it’s all too normal. Ordinary events in magical realism will never be seen as ordinary in the real world.
A human transforming into an animal is seen as something that would never happen, however in stories containing magical realism, metamorphosis is treated as a normal occurrence. In the film Big Fish, by Tim Burton, it displaces the magical

In the story Bless me Ultima written by Rudolfo Anaya, he uses many components of magical realism, in particular Anaya uses this element very often. In chapter nine of Bless me Ultima, Antonio’s uncle comes to the house explaining that his brother Lucas is dying, and it is because of three witches setting a curse on him. His uncle goes on to explain how his brother got cursed explaining, “‘He drew near and saw that it was no natural fire he witnessed, but rather the dance of the witches’” (86-87). During this event, Antonio and his family are not frightened of that witches had cursed his Uncle Lucas. Because of culture of the people, Antonio and everyone else in the town see the witches are just as ordinary as normal people. Also another time that Anaya uses this aspect of magical realism is in chapter twenty, where the Tellez, a family friend, comes to Ultima to seek help because of their house being cursed by the devil. Of course Ultima, Antonio, and his father went to go help the family, but once they were there they saw the power of the curse. Antonio explains, “The strange pounding noise on the roof… ‘[was] the devil dancing on my roof’”(230), once they went outside they realized that rocks fell from the sky and, “ without a word [Tellez’s sons] began picking up the rocks and carrying them to the nearby corral”(230). Here the characters simply do not bother that rocks just flew out of the sky onto their house. What's so significant of the rocks falling out of the sky is that such an event would never happen in the real world. Usually only rain and snow fall out of the sky, not rocks. Another story the shows this element of magical realism is, “Light is Like Water,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This story has both