The dead leaf is representative of these people's lives that they have lost and they are now like walking spirits going along with what any commander is telling them, no questions asked because they have no direction of their own. ... Demetrio since his house had been burned down wanted to take away from Monico what was stripped from him. Before burning down the house Demetrio was left inside the house and ordered all his soldiers outside. ...

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The Unmasking "Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of it's success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world "the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe it's strange, special air- (Bernstein). An artist must create a dif...

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In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of realit...

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