Magical Realism

In Love in the Time of Cholera magical realism is used. While the book is obivously about the past there are some aspects to the book that are a bit odd. For one the book ends while Florentio and Fermina are exiled on a ship because all the ports believe their ship has cholera. The ship has a yellow flag flying because Florentio ordered it to be flown. While it is sweet that Florentio did this in order to spend the rest of his life with Fermina this action is a little much.
Another portion of the book that shows magical realism is the fact that Fermina all of a sudden falls in love with Florentio at the end of the book.