Read the following excerpt from "Steeled" and answer the question that follows.

I wasn't allowed to eat the car--my mother's rule. I'd tried, of course, very early on, when I was three, and my mother caught me in the driveway biting along piece of panel flashing my father had pried off the car and left sitting on the pavement . . . . It was only for him to do, he said; it was not for children.

Which sentence best explains the effect of surrealist elements in this passage?

They seem to symbolize something that the characters find disturbing or troubling.

They cause the story to break all the rules of narrative, such as plot development.

They suggest a world in which everything is possible and the laws of nature are different.

They manage to create an entirely magical, fantastical world that is nonetheless believable.

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The sentence that best explains the effect of surrealist elements in this passage is:

They suggest a world in which everything is possible and the laws of nature are different.

This choice reflects the unconventional and imaginative scenario presented, where a child considers eating a car, highlighting a surreal perspective that deviates from reality.