read the excerpt from cristina garcias dreaming in cuban.

i dont really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dads family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. 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. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old womens voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.

how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?

○ it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.
○ it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilars cuban grandparents to explain family values.
○ it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.
○ it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.

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read the excerpt from cristina garcias dreaming in cuban.

i dont really want to talk about my father but i end up telling minnie how he used to take me horseback riding on our ranch, strapping me in his saddle with a leather seat belt he designed just for me. dads family owned casinos in cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. 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. he took me on an overnight inspection once. we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old womens voices. my father knew i understood more than i could say. he told me stories about cuba after columbus came. he said that the spaniards wiped out more indians with smallpox than with muskets.

how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?

○ it includes historical information about the spaniards and indians to indicate the work is nonfiction.
○ it describes the setting of the ranch owned by pilars cuban grandparents to explain family values.
○ it uses several narrators to share their points of view about past and present life in cuba.
○ it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between pilar and her father.

Accepted Answer

# Brief Explanations:
The excerpt moves between personal memories (horseback riding, camping, father's stories) and background details (family's ranch/casinos, historical anecdote about Cuba) out of strict chronological order. This non-linear structure centers the intimate, unspoken bond between the narrator and her father, as the memories all circle back to their shared moments and his understanding of her. The first option is wrong because the work is fiction (a novel). The second is incorrect as the ranch belongs to the narrator's father, not grandparents, and the focus is not family values. The third is wrong because there is only one narrator.
# Answer:
It manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between Pilar and her father.

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