Read 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.

I would argue that the complex narrative structure used in the excerpt is an example of establishing a work of fiction that is based on nonfiction. In this excerpt, which is found at the beginning of Soto's story, the author is recalling not just his grandmother's advice on how to make a living and who to marry, but how specifically she gave that advice to him - interspersing words in Spanish and sounds, and using an overall humorous way of speaking - and how he interpreted it and assessed it. This way of narrating is very relatable, vivid and realistic, and, as a result, the story seems believable and engages the reader.  

jungkook (if i had to pick one) but all of them rly!

explanation:

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- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."