A Mixture Of Realism And Magical Realism In Escape From Spiderhead

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I believe that the story “Escape From Spiderhead” is a mixture of both realism and unreal. I don’t know if the term “magical realism” will be a better fit for this story because although this story has some unrealistic setting such as the medicine(or machine program?) that can alter human emotion and behaviors, the way that humans react to the subject and how they got here are rather realistic. For example, based on Jeff’s narration, we can tell that all of the test subjects are criminals. And it is both reasonable(I don’t mean moral) and real that people will perform crazy experiments upon these people. Jeff’s reaction to the last experiment is also real in terms of rationality because that is totally human. The realism in this story might

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