Question

read the excerpt from cristina garcias dreaming in cuban
i was only two years old when i left cuba but i remember everything thats happened to me since i was a baby, even word - for - word conversations. i was sitting in my grandmothers lap, playing with her drop pearl earrings when my mother told her we were leaving the country. abuela celia called her a traitor to the revolution. mom tried to pull me away but i clung to the abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs. my grandfather came running and said, \celia, let the girl go. she belongs with lourdes.\ this was the last time i saw her.
how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?
it uses several narrators to provide conflicting points of view
it provides characterization for celia as it reveals her physical appearance
it uses a flashback to reveal the difficult relationship between lourdes and celia
it includes dialogue to indicate that the characters in the nonfiction account are real people

Explanation:

El fragmento utiliza un flashback (un recuerdo del pasado) para mostrar la relación difícil entre Lourdes y Celia. La narración se centra en un evento del pasado (cuando la narradora tenía dos años y se iba de Cuba) donde Celia (Abuela) llama traidora a Lourdes (madre) y hay una tensión entre ellas. Esto no muestra la apariencia física de Celia, no hay varios narradores (solo la voz de la narradora adulta recordando), y no es un relato no ficción (es una novela, por lo que los personajes son ficticios aunque el contexto (la Revolución Cubana) sea real).

Answer:

C. It uses a flashback to reveal the difficult relationship between Lourdes and Celia.