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

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.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)