Read the sentence from Barrio Boy by Ernesto Galarza.You never knew when a compadre or comadre of your aunt, or your uncle, or your father, or your mother was watching. For that matter, even people who were not compadres to your family thought they had some sort of rights over you. If you did or said something slightly irregular at the farthest end of the street from your cottage, where your legitimate bosses lived, somebody would be watching and ready to call out: "Mira, que muchachito tan malcriado." And if the offense was considered serious, the voice would say, "You will see, I am going to tell your mother.”What does the author mean by "legitimate bosses"?
The author calls the people who truly had authority over the child his “legitimate bosses.” The sentence identifies them as the child’s mother and father, who would be told about serious misbehavior, so “legitimate bosses” means parents.
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