Márquez also uses magical realism in reference to the turtles through the extremely unrealistic journey that Mr. Herbert and Tobías had undertaken to reach them. “Under the sea of ​​the drowned there are turtles with exquisite meat” (Márquez 36). Since everyone is starving anyway because of Mr. Herbert, he cites science as a way to feed people, but in the process they have to sacrifice their inheritance to survive. While this is completely unreasonable on the part of Mr. Herbert, it is quintessentially Western and was done in several Western colonies throughout the Age of Imperialism. “…the turtles were there. There were thousands of them, flattened at the bottom, so still that they seemed petrified” (Márquez 36). The turtles are absolutely ancient and passive, which is what allows them to be killed by Mr. Herbert. This further supports the claim that the sea is divided into layers, because the heart of Latin American culture is at the bottom of the sea, and the twisted Western version is at the top. “Mr. Herbert slaughtered the turtle, but it took all three of them to chase it down and kill a second time its heart bouncing in the yard as they tore the creature to pieces” (Márquez 36). The West killed the body, but there is everyone's collaboration was needed to truly destroy the culture.