Which excerpt from Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban best exemplifies magic realism?
Her name is Minnie French but she's weirdly old-looking for a young person. Maybe it's her name or the three shopping
bags of food she has under her seat.
I stared at them, tried to make them go away. I remember thinking, Okay, I'll start with their hair, make it fall out strand by
strand. They always left wearing kerchiefs to cover their bald patches,
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.
Our house is on a cement plot near the East River. At night, especially in the summer when the sound carries, I hear the
low whistles of the ships as they leave New York harbor.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky