Magical realism is a literary genre that is closely associated with some Latin American twentieth- century authors. It can also be referred to fabulism in ways such as fables, myths, and allegory. “House Taken Over” is a good example of Magical Realism because the plot of the story can only be moved forward by the us of dynamics that are kept up by supernatural or magical events and backgrounds. An example from the story is how the house of represented and shows that the house has been lived in by other generations of family before the siblings and the house holds memories of ancestors. Another example is on page 41 on paragraph 23, and lines 4-6; “From the door of the bedroom (she was knitting) I heard the noise in the kitchen; if not the
