J. K. Rowling: The Concept Of Magical Realism

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Albert Einstein once said, “There are two ways to live, you can live as if nothing is a miracle or you can live as if everything is a miracle.” Magic and Miracles are something that everyone has heard of, yet not everyone believes it exists. It’s always happening around us without us noticing it, like our perfect universe is the biggest miracle. Magic are Miracles are everywhere, its disguise itself in all sorts of different ways, like in the presence of a book series, or a movie that takes you into a different world while you are still sitting in the world of reality.
Books and Movies are the best way to express Magical Realism; you might think it is contradicting, after all how can something be magical and real? Magic isn’t real – or is it? The genre of “Magical Realism” originated from the Latin America, so this continent’s population has an attitude that anything can happen anytime. They believe in miracles and other spontaneous and indescribable phenomena. When I talk about magical realism, there are two authors that comes to my mind one is Master of Magical Realism Gabriel García Márquez and another one my all time favorite J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series is the biggest worldwide phenomenon for …show more content…

His works like, “The Old Man with Enormous Wings” shows us that in reality how we people don’t accept the truth of magic and miracles, where we fail to understand the concept of magic and miracles, we are glad and grateful if a miracle happens in our life because we believe in it, but we can accept it to be a part of the society, we later start considering these magic and miracles as “freaks” of the nature which brings a brilliant question in front of us that, “ are human beings the freaks of nature, if magic and miracles are really true ?” Think about

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