Read the excerpt from cristina garcia’s dreaming in cuban.
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.
how does the structure of the excerpt add meaning to the passage?
a)it manipulates the chronological order of events to reveal the difficult relationship between lourdes and celia.
b)it provides characterization for celia as it reveals her physical appearance.
c)it introduces several of the narrators who will share their points of view.
d)it includes dialogue to indicate that the characters in the nonfiction account are real people.

Read the excerpt from act 1 of a doll's house. helmer: nora! [goes up to her and takes her playfully by the ear.] the same little featherhead! suppose, now, that i borrowed fifty pounds today, and you spent it all in the christmas week, and then on new year's eve a slate fell on my head and killed me, and— nora: [putting her hands over his mouth]. oh! don't say such horrid things. helmer: still, suppose that happened, —what then? nora: if that were to happen, i don't suppose i should care whether i owed money or not. helmer: yes, but what about the people who had lent it? nora: they? who would bother about them? i should not know who they were. helmer: that is like a woman! but seriously, nora, you know what i think about that. no debt, no borrowing. there can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. we two have kept bravely on the straight road so far, and we will go on the same way for the short time longer that there need be any struggle. nora: [moving towards the stove]. as you , torvald. how does the interaction between helmer and nora advance the plot? nora realizes that helmer will completely disapprove of her having borrowed money, so she has to continue to keep it a secret from him. nora realizes that she and helmer have the same ideas about financial issues, and the conversation brings them closer together later in the play. helmer realizes that nora is more responsible with money than he originally thought, and he trusts her more with finances later in the play. nora realizes that helmer knows a lot more about borrowing and lending, and she will seek his input later when she needs it.