A Universe Unseen: Final Reflection

The authors of the novels House of the Spirits and Chronicle of a Death Foretold create their own universe where magic is acceptable in order to further represent Latin America as a whole. Magical realism is used in these two books as a literary technique to explain how Allende and Marquez perceive their own culture. They create an alternate universe so that the reader can get a glimpse of what Latin American culture is like. The universes created by the authors represent something that is not seen by other cultures, and the way in which they are perceived is unlike any other. In these two novels magic is made something so normal that it comes to the reader as strange and unusual. However, for a Latin American person it is how they live their life and it's the way they view things. Allende and Marquez use these two books to bring us into a world that is not seen by man but very well known to man; a world where magic is life, sin is nature, and feminism is the key to success.