His own drawings contradicted everything he felt about the things found in the chest. When all of the things he found in the chest disgusted him and proved to be worthless to him, his drawings had elicited feelings he had from his childhood. He soon realizes how important those things in the chest were especially that a part of his childhood was found there.
Matthew Strecher defines magic realism<span> as "what happens when a highly detailed, </span>realistic<span> setting is invaded by something too strange to believe." ... </span>Magical realism is<span> often associated with Latin American literature, particularly authors including Gabriel García Márquez, Miguel Angel Asturias, and Isabel Allende.</span>
