Answer:
The tone that Santiago establishes in her essay is fondness
Step-by-step explanation:
In “How to Eat a Guava,” by Esmeralda Santiago, she talks about all those feelings and how proud she is of being a Puerto Rican herself, so she compares her immersion to the New Yorker culture as all the experience of eating a guava, she mentions how this is a bittersweet experience that involves contradictory sensations just as her adjustment to the change of cultures.