I Flew To The Moon Okri Analysis

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It appears that there is full of exaggeration in above situation where photographer praises to the skies. Some phrases are: ‘I flew to the moon’; ‘I can drink ten bottles of ogogoro without getting drunk’ and ‘And one day when they are very hungry they will eat us up’. Azaro asks his doubts and increases the curiosity to know something new from photographer. On the surface level we feel that there is magic realism but Okri gives clues to keep us away from the magic realism and demonstrate to ‘Postcolonial aesthetic of cultural hybridity’. Through this situation Okri states the satirical comment against the political leaders. These political leaders are really hungry to get a lot by corruption or polluted way. In a Magic Realist text, anything can take place. You can get up to discover yourself unseen one morning, or you can unexpectedly sprout wings and start flying, or your dog might commence speaking to you in perfect English. On the other hand, in TFR, Ben Okri differentiates the post colonial aesthetic of cultural hybridity and magic realism by using dream logic sequence. Moreover, it …show more content…

In other words, the novel puts forward a panoramic view that wraps the existence of the spirits of the ancestors and the unborn, a spirit-world of another or similar aspect. There are some people such as Abikus, herbalists, witches and so on who repeatedly correspond with the spirit world .All supernatural events in the novel fall within this worldview; we do not come across flying carpets, people unexpectedly ascending to sky or people with strange abilities without an apparent connection to spirit world. At the same time Ben Okri gives accurate indication about dream logic sequence which moves to the postcolonial aesthetic of cultural

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