The narrator of the short piece The Moths is a fourteen-year-old girl. She is an unusual girl, who is quite different from everything and everybody, especially the feminine world. The girl from the story is entitled as being rebellious due to lack of respect, non-stop confronting her family members and being immature. She is not as “pretty or nice”, nor does she do "girly things". The story itself has many stages, themes and it gives the ability to the reader to sympathize with the protagonist while she is going through different situations.
The life of the narrator is pretty harsh since she is exposed to many oppressions. One of the examples are cultural norms such as gender roles, religious persecution, etc. Although the narrator’s mother, …show more content…
Many authors argued about the true meaning of magical realism, but in the article The Ideal World in Search Of Its Reference: An inquiry into the underlying nature of magical realism, it was noted that "Magical realism, in the final analysis, must be considered a local expression whose function and structure reveal a universal epistemological phenomenon”. Some people believe magical realism is “dead”, but they are blind to the fact that magical realism is spread throughout many countries. The proof of magical realism still being very much alive is mentioned in the article Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community “... the anthology makes a strong and convincing case that magical realism has spilled over the borders of Latin America and is a significant force in postcolonial literature in various parts of the world (India, North Africa, Japan, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe)”. One of the biggest reasons, which is also the most important one, that sort this story under magical realism genre is the final scene, when the grandmother dies and the moths start flying out from Abuelita’s mouth, “...small, gray ones that came from her soul and out through her mouth fluttering to light…” (Viramontes 37) It is conspicuous and nonrealistic for such thing to happen in real life, although the narrator acts as if that is a normal thing and she’s not bothered about it at all. She handled the situation well, treating the death and the magic
The life of the narrator is pretty harsh since she is exposed to many oppressions. One of the examples are cultural norms such as gender roles, religious persecution, etc. Although the narrator’s mother, …show more content…
Many authors argued about the true meaning of magical realism, but in the article The Ideal World in Search Of Its Reference: An inquiry into the underlying nature of magical realism, it was noted that "Magical realism, in the final analysis, must be considered a local expression whose function and structure reveal a universal epistemological phenomenon”. Some people believe magical realism is “dead”, but they are blind to the fact that magical realism is spread throughout many countries. The proof of magical realism still being very much alive is mentioned in the article Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community “... the anthology makes a strong and convincing case that magical realism has spilled over the borders of Latin America and is a significant force in postcolonial literature in various parts of the world (India, North Africa, Japan, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe)”. One of the biggest reasons, which is also the most important one, that sort this story under magical realism genre is the final scene, when the grandmother dies and the moths start flying out from Abuelita’s mouth, “...small, gray ones that came from her soul and out through her mouth fluttering to light…” (Viramontes 37) It is conspicuous and nonrealistic for such thing to happen in real life, although the narrator acts as if that is a normal thing and she’s not bothered about it at all. She handled the situation well, treating the death and the magic