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Latin American Magic Realist Voices Answers

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What is the advantage of reading from three different perspectives in Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban?

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It breaks up the narrative and prevents the plot line from becoming bogged down in one particular place or time.
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It allows the writer to experiment with a variety of different writing styles, as every speaker sounds distinctively different.
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The different perspectives underscore the larger idea that immigrants or exiles must shed their native traditions.
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It provides the reader with multiple perspectives on the Cuban Revolution and on the differences between life in Cuba and exile in the US.
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Students who have read a section of a text and do not understand it should

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keep reading until the end of the story, when things will become clear.
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ask themselves when comprehension was lost.
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begin to copy any remaining text into their notes.
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push themselves to read faster in order to finish early and review.
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Which sentence from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban is an example of magic realism?

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Abuela Celia and I write to each other sometimes, but mostly I hear her speaking to me at night just before I fall asleep.
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At night, especially in the summer when the sound carries, I hear the low whistles of the ships as they leave New York harbor.
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Lourdes imagines these pieces, broken and bruised in unspeakable places, on piers and in alleyways, drifting down the river to the sea.
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One girl left with a broken leg after slipping on a bar of soap Pilar dropped while the nanny was bathing her in the sink.
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My grandfather came running and said, “Celia, let the girl go. She belongs with Lourdes.”

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Jorge understands that mother-daughter relationships can be complex.
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Jorge values his relationship with his daughter more than the one with his wife.
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Jorge wants more than anything to build a closer relationship with his granddaughter.
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Jorge wants his family to value their Cuban background and stay together.
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Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in Brooklyn. She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.

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relating the sentence to personal experience
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slowing down to break up the long sentence
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looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence
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reading the sentence out loud to himself
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relate personally to a text.
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define hard vocabulary words in a text.
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monitor comprehension of a text.
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better understand the theme of a text.
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Lourdes considers herself lucky. Immigration has redefined her, and she is grateful. Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention. Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings. Its layers protect her. She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her.

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Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, its possibilities for reinvention.
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Lourdes relishes winter most of all—the cold scraping sounds on sidewalks and windshields, the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings.
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Its layers protect her.
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She wants no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her.
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Which complex narrative structure is underutilized by Cristina Garcia in Dreaming in Cuban?

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the attention given to presenting the work as fiction
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the use of unconventional textual features
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the representation of several narrators
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the manipulation of the chronological order of events
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My father knew I understood more than I could say. He told me stories about Cuba after Columbus came. He said that the Spaniards wiped out more Indians with smallpox than with muskets.

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She shows the close relationship that Pilar had with her father.
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She connects the events to the colonial history of Latin America.
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She is a modern writer developing a story about Spanish history.
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She characterizes Columbus’s discovery as an extraordinary event.
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I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for-word conversations. I was sitting in my grandmother’s lap, playing with her drop pearl earrings, when my mother told her we were leaving the country. Abuela Celia called her a traitor to the revolution. Mom tried to pull me away but I clung to the Abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs. My grandfather came running and said, “Celia, let the girl go. She belongs with Lourdes.” This was the last time I saw her.

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It uses several narrators to provide conflicting points of view.
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It provides characterization for Celia as it reveals her physical appearance.
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It uses a flashback to reveal the difficult relationship between Lourdes and Celia.
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It includes dialogue to indicate that the characters in the nonfiction account are real people.

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