Question

read the excerpt from cristina garcias dreaming in cuban.
\lourdes, im 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.
\dont be afraid, mi hija. just keep walking and ill 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?
○ lourdes’s father returning to her from the dead
○ the list of items lourdes buried with her father
○ the dusk settling on the tops of the trees
○ the flaring sunset behind the brownstones

Explanation:

Magic realism blends ordinary, real-world settings with supernatural or impossible events. In the excerpt, the core supernatural element is a character who was buried (and thus dead) returning to speak to his daughter, while the rest of the details (burial items, dusk, sunset) are realistic, mundane elements.

Answer:

Lourdes's father returning to her from the dead