Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban.

"Lourdes, I'm back," Jorge del Pino greets his daughter forty days after she buried him with his Panama hat, his cigars, and a bouquet of violets in a cemetery on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

His words are warm and close as a breath. Lourdes turns, expecting to find her father at her shoulder but she sees only the dusk settling on the tops of the oak trees, the pink tinge of sliding darkness.

"Don't be afraid, mi hija. Just keep walking and I'll explain," Jorge del Pino tells his daughter.

The sunset flares behind a row of brownstones linking them as if by a flaming ribbon.

Which best identifies the magic realism found in the excerpt?

A. Lourdes's father returning to her from the dead

B. the list of items Lourdes buried with her father

C. the dusk settling on the tops of the trees

D. the flaring sunset behind the brownstones

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Tess

25 December, 00:07

Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban.

"Lourdes, I'm back," Jorge del Pino greets his daughter forty days after she buried him with his Panama hat, his cigars, and a bouquet of violets in a cemetery on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

His words are warm and close as a breath. Lourdes turns, expecting to find her father at her shoulder but she sees only the dusk settling on the tops of the oak trees, the pink tinge of sliding darkness.

"Don't be afraid, mi hija. Just keep walking and I'll explain," Jorge del Pino tells his daughter.

The sunset flares behind a row of brownstones linking them as if by a flaming ribbon.

Which best identifies the magic realism found in the excerpt?

A. Lourdes's father returning to her from the dead

B. the list of items Lourdes buried with her father

C. the dusk settling on the tops of the trees

D. the flaring sunset behind the brownstones

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Clarissa Vaughan · Answer 1

The best answer is letter A. Lourdes's father returning to her from the dead.

Explanation:

Magic realism refers to a strategy mainly used in Latin-American literature in which imaginary or fantastic elements or scenes are included in seemingly realistic fiction. Notice that this is achieved in the passage we are studying here as soon as we learn Lourdes' father is dead. In real life, and in realistic stories, for that matter, we do not expect people to come talk to us after they have died. The inclusion of such fantastic element is what makes this passage an identifiable example of magic realism.