# Fear of abnormality [[2025-0325. 'Disobedience to one’s parents in Latin American culture goes against the ‘natural’, ‘normal’ behaviour and rules dictated by religious ideologies.'|’In this show, the fears are to do with being ‘unnatural’. … Malformation of one’s spirit is punishable and ‘corrected’ through some divine intervention, which draws parallels to scientific intervention to amend physical deformities, even when they present no threat of death to the ‘abnormal’ person.’]][^1] [^1]: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, ‘[[Rivera-Fuentes. ‘Gender and Hybridity’, 2000.|Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human/Animal Characters in Magic Realist Fiction]]’, *Animal Issues*, vol. 4, no. 1 (2000), p. 40.