the narroator says“Dominicans are Caribbean and therefore have an extraordinary tolerance for extreme phenomena. How else could we have survived what we survived?” (p. 149). What does he mean by that? Could Oscar’s obsession with science fiction and the “speculative genres” be seen as a kind of extension of his ancestors’ belief in “extreme phenomena”? Was that his method of coping?

Read the sentences below. (1) wordsworth believed that poetry should present the ordinary in unusual ways, and shelley's "ode to the west wind" does just that. (2) in the poem, the speaker calls the wind "thou breath of autumn's being." (3) later in the poem, the speaker refers to the wind as both "destroyer and preserver." which word or phrase would smooth the transition between sentence 1 and sentence 2? a "in addition" b "finally" c "for instance" d "moreover"