What is “magic”? One dictionary definition describes the word as "Any mysterious and overpowering quality that brings singular distinction and enchantment", and another as "Possessing distinctive qualities that produce puzzling inexplicable events" ("Magic"). Magical realism as a literary technique encompasses all literary documents that weave supernatural elements into the natural world, has integrated into many modern texts, and has close cousins ​​in the universe of literary genre. For most people, the first thing that comes to mind when a person says "magic" is a group of people with magic wands conjuring up all sorts of imaginative images out of thin air. Likewise, magical realism is a literary technique that combines a “…rational view of reality and…the acceptance of the supernatural as a prosaic reality…” (Moore). The whole idea is that the supernatural and natural parts can coexist in a completely plausible way. The characteristics of such classification involve a hybrid quality, “illustrated in the disharmonious arenas of opposites such as urban and rural and Western and indigenous… boundaries, mixing and change,” and ambiguity regarding the “accuracy of events and the credibility of the worldviews expressed by the characters...” while keeping the supernatural events indisputable (Moore). The first recorded appearance of magical realism was as an artistic category described by Fran Roh, an art critic, who saw it as “a way of representing and responding to reality and pictorially representing the enigmas of reality.” (Moore). Later, around the 1940s, “magical realism was a way to express the American realist mentality and create an autonomous literary style.” in Latin America (Moore). This particular... medium of paper......realism can be found almost wherever the extraordinary and the ordinary collide, has artistic roots but is found in several modern literary works and holds its own against fantasy and fantasy . science fiction stereotypes. The use of magical realism can create interest in almost any plot and can heighten messages or themes for the reader. Works Cited Dubey, Madhu. “The Politics of Gender in Beloved.” Novel (A Forum on Fiction) 32. 2(1999):187. eLibrary. Network. February 15, 2014."Fantasy." Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica INC., September 19, 2012. Web. February 15, 2014."Magic." THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. New York: 1969.Moore, Lindsay. ""Magical realism"." Postcolonial Studies on Emory Pages. Np, nd Web. 13 February 2014. Nexon, Daniel. ""Harry Potter" and magical realism." CBS News. Scholastic, July 20, 2007. Web. February 15 2014.