The document discusses two novels that exemplify magical realism as a genre: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez and The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. It provides details on both novels' settings, families, generations, and supernatural elements. It also notes that Márquez drew from his childhood memories of his grandparents and Allende began her story as a letter to her dying grandfather. The document then explains defining and non-defining relative clauses, using examples from the novels. It concludes with an overview of choosing the proper relative pronouns.

1. Magical Reali
…and Relative Clause
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3. by the Colombian author
Gabriel García Márquez is the novel that made magical realism popular
around the world.
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4. It tells the story of seven generations
of the Buendía family, who live in an
isolated South American village called
Macondo. This is a place where
supernatural happenings are part of
everyday life - at one point everyone
living in the village suffers from both
insomnia and amnesia. Many
characters also have magical qualities.
One man, whose girlfriend is "the
most beautiful girl ever born“, is
always followed by hundreds of
butterflies, and people who die early
in the story often return as ghosts.Romina Domingo
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5. The book has dozens of
characters, which can make the plot
difficult to follow, but a family tree
helps you work out who's related to
who. This brilliant novel, which
Márquez says is based on his
childhood memories of living with his
grandparents, has sold over ten
million copies worldwide.
Now discuss these
questions:
Where is the story set?
 Which family is the novel about?
 How many generations of this family are in
the novel?
 What 'magical things' happen in the
novel?
 How are the author's grandparents
connected to the novel?

6. was the first novel written by the
Chilean author Isabel Allende.
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7. It tells the story of three
generations of women whose
lives are changed by their
country's politics. The
women's story, which takes
place in an unnamed South
American country, begins
when the
granddaughter, Alba
Trueba, finds some diaries
that her grandmother Clara
wrote 50 years earlier.Romina Domingo
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8. As a child, Clara realises she can
see the future and is able to
predict almost every event in her
life. She marries a powerful
landowner named Esteban
Trueba, who builds her a large
house in the country. The house
is full of ghosts and
spirits, which advise Clara on
how to deal with family
problems.
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9. The story takes place at a time when
political groups are battling for
control of the country - a fight that
ends in a bloody coup and political
chaos. This famous novel, which
began as a letter to the author's
dying grandfather, is considered a
classic of the magical realism genre.
Now discuss these
questions:
Where is the story set?
 Which family is the novel about?
 How many generations of this family are in
the novel?
 What 'magical things' happen in the
novel?
 How are the author's grandparents
connected to the novel?
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10. Magic realism or magical realism is a
genre where magic elements are a
natural part in an otherwise
mundane, realistic environment.
Although it is most commonly used as a
literary genre, magic realism also applies
to film and the visual arts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_realism

11. Go back to the texts…
Look at the relative clauses in green.
Do they…
tell you which
person, thing, place, etc. the
speaker is talking about
(essential information).
add extra non-essential
information.
or
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13. The relative clauses in green…
tell you which
person, thing, place, etc. the
speaker is talking about
(essential information).
add extra non-essential
information.
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
They are called…
DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES

14. The story takes place at
a time when political
groups are battling for
control of the country.
People who die early
in the story often
return as ghosts.
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15. The relative clauses in orange…
…add extra non-essential information.
They are called…
NON-DEFINING
RELATIVE CLAUSES
They are put in commas.
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16. One man, whose
girlfriend is "the most
beautiful girl ever
born“, is always followed
by hundreds of
butterflies…
She marries a
powerful landowner
named Esteban
Trueba, who builds
her a large house in
the country.

17. How do
we choose
the
relative
pronoun?
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18. WHO
WHOM
THAT
refer to people
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19. which
THAT
refer to things
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20. whose
shows possession/
relationship
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21. When
that
refer to a time
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22. whererefer to a place
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23. whygives reason
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24. TO SUM UP:
- Relative clauses describe or provide information about
something or someone that we have already specified.
- There are defining and non-difining (or identifying and
non-identifying) relative clauses.
- Defining relative clauses give necessary information
essential to the meaning of the sentence.
- Non-defining relative clauses give extra information and
are put in commas.
- To choose a relative pronoun or adverb you have to
decide whether it refers to a person, a thing, a place, a
time, etc.