If you give me the vocabulary words, I may be able to answer this properly.
<span>The statement that best describes the element of magic realism used by Christina Garcia in Dreaming in Cuban is "She connects the events to the colonial history of Latin America. The answer is letter B. Also in this excerpt, it gives the reader different point of views on the Cuban Revolution and the differences between the exile in US and life in Cuba.
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In Ancient times, sickness was thought to be caused by an excess of blood. Therefore, doctors would cut into their patients and let some of the blood out to help cure them. This theory advanced into thinking that the human body needed all of its "humors" to be balanced: blood was one of the humors so if the doctor thought you had an imbalance, they would 'let' some of the blood out.