Question

We talk for an hour and had apple pie and coffee, slowly. Finally, we got up with Carolyn taking my hand. Slightly embarrassed, I tried to pull away but her grip held me. I let her have her way as she led me down the hallway with her mother right behind me. . . . Carolyn waved again. I looked, back, waving. . . . Her people were like Mexicans, only different.

Which best explains how Soto’s text structure helps establish his voice in the excerpt?
Soto compares his experience to his wife’s experience in order to criticize marriage in a multicultural society.
Soto lists a series of events to present guidelines on how to live in a multicultural society.
Soto relates a story from his life to make a point about what it means to live in a multicultural society.
Soto uses a cause-and-effect format to show how a person’s heritage can limit his or her marriage choices.

Answer 1

Soto relates a story from his life to make a point about what it means to live in a multicultural society.

His first-person, anecdotal sequence of events (coffee and pie, holding hands, waving, the remark about “her people”) uses a personal moment to convey attitudes and tensions about cultural difference.