Saturday, November 27, 2010

Discuss the blend of realistic and fantastic details. Does this blend make the story more or less effective? Does it require a different type of...

"" is an intriguing blend  of the ordinary and the supernatural, of reality
and the fantastic.  Consider the following:

  • A girl disobeys her
    parents (real) and is turned into a giant spider (fantastical).
  • A very sick
    little boy was healed (real) and, among others, a blind man did not have his sight restored but
    did grow three new teeth (supernatural).
  • A very old man (real) has
    enormous, and very natural-looking, wings (unreal).
  • Angels (or should I
    say, winged creatures who are apparently responsible for at least one actual miracle) are true
    and respected religious symbols (real) but this particular one is kept in a chicken...

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