Question

IRead the excerpt from Gary Soto’s short story "Like Mexicans.”

My grandmother gave me bad advice and good advice when I was in my early teens. For the bad advice, she said that I should become a barber because they made good money and listened to the radio all day. “Honey, they don’t work como burros,” she would say every time I visited her. She made the sound of donkeys braying. “Like that, honey!” For the good advice, she said that I should marry a Mexican girl. “No Okies, hijo”—she would say— “Look, my son. He marry one and they fight every day about I don’t know what and I don’t know what.” For her, everyone who wasn’t Mexican, black, or Asian were Okies. The French were Okies, the Italians in suits were Okies. . . . she lectured me on the virtues of the Mexican girl.

The complex narrative structure used in the excerpt is an example of
unconventional text features.
several narrators being used.
establishing a work of fiction that is based on nonfiction.
the chronological order of events being manipulated.

Answer 1

C). establishing a work of fiction that is based on non-fiction.

Step-by-step explanation:

As per the question, the complex narrative structure in the given excerpt exemplifies a 'fictional work that is based upon a non-fictional work.' In the beginning, the first-person is narrating the story as reflected by the use of 'I' which is a characteristic of non-fiction while the use of quotation marks to mark the exact words of her grandmother reflecting the characteristic of fiction. Thus, this demonstration displays a non-fictional work is being given the shape of fiction in order to inform and entertain the audience at the same time. Hence, option C is the correct answer.