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Skellig Study Guide

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by David Almond
About 15 pages (4,581 words)
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Literary Qualities

Skellig is both a name and all-encompassing title filled with hidden meanings.

Almond rejects the label of fantasy for his work, finding it closer to the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Magical realism takes an ordinary slice of reality and infuses it with the supernatural. Other examples of magical realism are Charles de Lint's Newford series and Orson Scott Card's Tales of Alvin Maker.

Almond delivers the magic in Michael's.....

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Skellig from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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