read the excerpt from cristina garcias dreaming in cuban.\nmy mother says that abuela celias had plenty of…
read the excerpt from cristina garcias dreaming in cuban.\nmy mother says that abuela celias had plenty of chances to leave cuba but that shes stubborn and got her head turned around by el lider. mom says \communist\ the way some people says \cancer,\ low and fierce.\nwhich element from this excerpt best characterizes garcias story as one of magic realism?\n- linking the words \communist\ and \cancer\\n- presenting the idea of leaving cuba as an extraordinary event\n- using el lider as an additional narrator from cuba\n- connecting celia with latin american history
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Brief Explanations:
Magic realism often blends the ordinary with the extraordinary and uses symbolic or unexpected associations. Linking "communist" (a political term) and "cancer" (a medical/negative term) in the way of saying them (low and fierce) creates a surreal, symbolic connection typical of magic realism. The other options: presenting leaving Cuba as extraordinary is not magic realism's core here; El Lider isn't an additional narrator; connecting Celia with history is more historical context than magic realism.
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A. linking the words “communist” and “cancer”