Speculative Fiction - Assignment 12 James Madison University

Instructions:(This will be graded only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort. A goal of this exercise is to have you think further about genre definition and boundaries.)

• Ater reading the class handout on magical realism definitions (also available on CANVAS under Files) and both "Two Words" and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," complete the following:
  

  For each short story (separately), pick one definition of magical realism from the handout that you think fits that story very well (or at least better than the other definitions). Write a paragraph describing why you think the details of the definition you chose provide a (relatively) good characterization of the genre of that particular story.