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A genre of literature that is fictional but based off of history and historical events.
In We Beat the Street three friends Sampson, George and Rameck decide to fight against all odds and not to follow the way of many youngsters into drug dealing, gangs, etc. In this excerp the author include this exchange to illustrate Carla's high expectations.
The first to use the term "magical realism" to describe the works of artists who put dreamlike images in their paintings was Franz Roh.
