Magic Realism In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

I looked round and saw Dad asleep on the chair, his head bent forward, snoring. I woke him up and he leapt with a start and fell off the chair. When he got up he said a leopard with glass teeth had been pursuing him in his dreams. [...] He kept sighing and muttering words to his ancestors and I found myself again in Madame Koto’s bar deep in the forest. Dad wasn’t there. […] Dad began to snore. He snored so hard that the long wooden broom in the corner began to sweep the bar, spreading white dust everywhere. (71)

Narrator explains another situation which occurs at Madame Koto’s Bar. In this situation everything is stated in such way that anybody can accept that there is magic realism in TFR. But Azaro utters a word dream and critics views

This is a kind of dream through which he challenges all opponents to fight against him. Simultaneously, he awakes his community to learn new skills to fight against their foe. He reiterates that their ancestors were not enough strong to fight against enemy. He is confident about his people that if they inculcate some skills to fight, then something great or new will happen.

Azaro as well as his father play with unknown people in their dreams. Sometime Azaro faces very frightful dreams. He acts as if conversing with spirit beings, he is actually doing so. He can fall into trance anywhere .This is the prominent feature of the Abiku child. Azaro usually speaks with companions of spirit word. Whereas his father enters in the role of black tiger and appeals all enemies including inanimate objects such as chair. Azaro narrates the situation:

We stared at him in fear and confusion. He weaved a bit, stretched his back, and staggered towards his chair. He did not sit down but stood regarding the chair as if it were an enemy.

‘You’re looking at me, chair,’ he said. ‘You don’t want me to sit on you, eh, because I fell in mud, isn’t that correct?’

The chair said