Latin American Magic Realist Voices

Read the following excerpt from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. Lourdes considers herself lucky. Immigration has redefined her, and she is grateful. Unlike her husband, she welcomes her adopted language, it's 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 code hats and zip-in coat linings. Its layers protect her. She wants no part of Cuba, mid part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all, which Lourdes claims never possessed her. Which sentence is an example of magic realism?

Read the following excerpts from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. 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. How does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?

Which excerpt from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban best exemplifies magic realism?

Which sentence from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban is an example of magic realism?

Students who have read a section of a text and do not understand it should

Read the excerpt from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. I don't really want to talk about my father but I end up telling Minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seatbelt he designed just for me. Dad's family owned casinos in Cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. There were beef cattle and dairy cows, horses, pigs, goats, and lambs. Dad fed them molasses to fatten them, and gave the chickens corn and sorghum until they laid vermilion eggs, rich with vitamins. He took me on and overnight inspection once. We camped out under a sapodilla tree and listen to the pygmy owls with their old women's voices. 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 then with muskets. How does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?

Which strategy would be least useful for helping students monitor comprehension of a text as they are reading?

Read the two excerpts about Jorge del Pino from Dreaming in Cuban. Excerpt 1: My grandfather came running and said, "Celia, let the girl go. She belongs with Lourdes." Excerpt 2: "Pilar doesn't hate you, hija. She just hasn't learned to love you yet." Which statement best synthesizes the ideas in these two excerpts?

Which complex narrative structure is underutilized bye Cristina Garcia in Dreaming in Cuban?

Look at the diagram. This diagram is best used for helping a reader

Read the following excerpt from Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban. If it were up to me, I'd record other things. Like the time there was a freak hailstorm in the Congo and the women took it as a sign that they should rule... Why don't I know anything about them? Who chooses what we should know more what's important? I know I have to decide these things for myself. Most of what I've learned that's important I've learned on my own, or from my grandmother. What does the excerpt reveal about Cristina Garcia?

Draya is a student who does not understand the following sentence from Dreaming in Cuban. She reads the newspapers page by page for leftist conspiracies, jams her finger against imagined evidence and says, "See. What did I tell you?" Which strategy would best assist Draya in making the excerpt easier to understand?

Which best describes why Cristina Garcia chose a multi-narrative structure for Dreaming in Cuban?