Question

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.

Explanation:

The passage starts with the narrator not wanting to talk about her father but then proceeds to share detailed memories. This manipulation of chronological order (starting with a reluctance but then going into past events) shows a close relationship. The historical info about Spaniards and Indians is a small part and doesn't make it non - fiction. There's no mention of Pilar's grandparents' ranch setting for family values. And there's only one narrator.

Answer:

It manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the close relationship between Pilar and her father.