Magical Realism In Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom Of This World

Alejo Carpentier’s wrote The Kingdom of This World in 1948, a foundational text in the category of magical realism. He outlines the objectives and essential characteristics of the variety, which he called “lo real maravilloso,”the “marvelous real.” Carpentier choses to write on the perspective of an indefinite slave, which is none other than Ti-Noël, who was the main point of view of one of the Revolution. Carpentier sees the Revolution’s as a successes, as he moves the narrative away from Haiti, instead of following the route of the escaping French planters to Santiago de Cuba. “Even though Ti Noel was a free man, he set foot on a land where slavery had been abolished forever”. The blacks were treated in a way in which they valid nothing …show more content…
It stated that the man would rubbed her body with almond cream and would polish her toenails to suit her. So for the females in the novel the males were consider of great help when it came to do …show more content…
93 it stated that the Haitians use to prevent the evil miasmas from crossing the water, “the negro set float little boats made of halves of coconuts, all bedecked with ribbons from Pauline’s sewing box”, “these were in natural of tributes to Aguasou, Lord of the sea”. People would be so happy knowing that they were showing their gods that they meant a lot in their lives. While they march up the streets with music, as they danced their way to the ceremonies sites. They would be dressed in full white, some of them would be in customs like they were having a parade or even be marching in a carnival. The way they perform the vodou would be the way we in Belize perform our carnival march. Hype music and enough energy to walk and dance as they march to the end, where the vodou ceremony will take place. The people practicing the vodou would be rejoicing, along with the music feeling the spirit of their gods and showing him how serious they take that