Question

read the excerpt from gary sotos 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 dont 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.
o okies, hijo\—she would say—\look, my son. he marry one and they fight every day about i dont know what and i dont know what.\ for her, everyone who wasnt 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
○ acknowledging the story as fictional.
○ several narrators being used.
○ establishing a work of fiction that is based on nonfiction.
○ the chronological order of events being manipulated.

Explanation:

The excerpt uses a first-person narrator recalling a specific period of their youth, framing fictional storytelling around personal, real-life-like experiences of family advice and cultural attitudes. This structure builds a fictional work rooted in nonfictional-style personal and cultural context. The other options are incorrect: there is no acknowledgment of the story as fictional, only one narrator, and events are presented in a straightforward chronological memory of the grandmother's advice, not manipulated.

Answer:

establishing a work of fiction that is based on nonfiction.