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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, ever;one 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.
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The complex narrative structure used in the excerpt is an example of the chronological order of events being manipulated.