I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for-word conversations. I was sitting in my grandmother’s lap, playing with her drop pearl earrings, when my mother told her we were leaving the country. Abuela Celia called her a traitor to the revolution. Mom tried to pull me away but I clung to the Abuela and screamed at the top of my lungs. My grandfather came running and said, “Celia, let the girl go. She belongs with Lourdes.” This was the last time I saw her.
Answer
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It uses several narrators to provide conflicting points of view.
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It provides characterization for Celia as it reveals her physical appearance.
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It uses a flashback to reveal the difficult relationship between Lourdes and Celia.
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It includes dialogue to indicate that the characters in the nonfiction account are real people.
Explanation
The narrator looks back on a memory from when she was two, describing her mother’s announcement that they were leaving Cuba and her grandmother’s angry response. This flashback shows the conflict between Lourdes and Celia, including Celia calling Lourdes a traitor and the grandfather telling Celia to let the child go. The passage does not give several narrators or describe Celia’s physical appearance.
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