Doe Season: Magic Realist Language

In "Doe Season" by David Kaplan many literary forces contribute to making the story a great piece of writing. In the sense of contributing to the story's development characters play the most dominant role, along with setting as a close second. However, language seems to hold its own significance in the story, and even has its own name. Magic realism is a term I was opened up to as I read the background information about the author, presented before the text. This term can be defined as; "working outside the borders of traditional fantasy writing, seamlessly interweaving magical elements with detailed, realistically drawn 'everyday' settings. " For me, magic realism serves to turn an otherwise uninteresting text into an amazingly thought provoking work of art, and this is a great thing. If I were to have judged "Doe Season" simply by its title I would have assumed the story was about hunting, and tossed it aside, regarding it as another lame story about traditional male hobbies. Well, needless to say, I am very glad I didn't , and am grateful for being (in a sense) forced to read it.
Within the first line of "Doe Season" a reader can clearly identify what language can be considered as magic realism, "They were always the same woods, she thought sleepily as they drove through the early morning darkness - deep and immense, covered with yesterday's snowfall" (456) Before I was aware that such a thing as magic realism existed I was noting what great images lines such as this create in my head, never before did I imagine such an elaborate image can be conveyed about woods with such a short set of words. Throughout the story these images continue to be conveyed via beautiful descriptive language, and serve to engage the reader in every scene and setting. "Doe Season" has not only opened up my mind to the amazing works of David Kaplan, but taught me about a new literary technique that I will constantly be looking for in the world of writing.