For Water Like Chocolate and The Handsomest Drown Man Magical realism is a type of story that seems realistic but the author brings in some fantasy. In Laura Esquivel’s For Water Like Chocolate and Gabriel Marquez’ The Handsomest Drowned Man magical realism plays a huge role. They both have very realistic plots, but there is a twist of illusion in the story. The Handsomest Drowned Man uses many examples of magical realism. The man found drowned was described as being enormous. “The tallest men’s holiday pants would not fit him, nor the fattest one’s Sundays’ shirt, nor the shoes of the one with biggest feet.”....

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