Magic Realism survived to define a narrative tendency in Latin America during 1949 to 1970. It can be defined as a preoccupation or interest in showing something common or daily into something unreal or strange. A magic realist narrator creates the illusion of "unreality," faking the escape from the natural, and tells an action that even if appears as explainable it comes across as strange. In strange narration's, instead of presenting something as real, the writers reality becomes magical. The writer suggests a supernatural atmosphere without denying the natural, and the style is distorting the reality. The intention of the narrator is to provoke strange feeling. The explanations are not clear or logical. There also is no innuendo or psychological analysis of the characters, instead they are well defined almost in opposition, and never appear confuse

The movie does compare with the novel in the sense that there are men waiting to be executed, and the fact that they are both trying to cope and learn the consequence of their action. In the novel, Jefferson is the one being taught from Grant and in the movie, Sister Helen teaches Matthew. This difference, however, is the fact that in the novel, Jefferson is a black man while Matthew is a white man. Like I already stated, it is easier to convict a black man over a white man especially around the time that the novel was written.

The story proves that even in the past blacks were guilty of a crime before they even entered the courtroom. This is because then, the jury was chosen of all registered voters which were all white men. A black man never had the chance of being acquitted.

University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. Grant is trapped in a career he does not enjoy, angered by the injustice he sees all around him, he dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But, when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, and Grants Aunt, Tante-Lou beg Grant for one last favor, to teach Jefferson to die like a man. What was worse than having to deal with his aunt and Miss Emma, Reverend Ambrose wants Grant to reassure the death row prisoner about Heaven something Grant is no longer able to believe in. In Grants response:

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