... will investigate this use of magic and the function it serves within the novel. The Gypsies are the first in the novel to bring visible magic into the town. They are also the ones to bring science in the town, which balances the Western theory of logic and rationalism against the more open-minded Latin American way of thinking. They bring in fantastical creatures such as the 'hen who laid a hundred gold eggs to the sound of a tambourine'. This over-exaggeration of an already magical creature gives the novel humour and creates an air of wonder around the Gypsies. There is also a monkey that reads minds alongside many inventions such as a machine that can 'sew on buttons and reduce fevers'3 at the same time which arouses the readers suspicion that the Gypsies are not just bringing real technology to Macondo, such as the ice and the magnet, but ...

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