The following question refers to "How to Eat a Guava." What kind of tone does Santiago establish in her essay?

sarcastic

fondness

humorous

disrespectful

I would go with either humorus or fondness. probably humorus, but it's a 50/50 chance.

The tone that Santiago establishes in her essay is fondness

Explanation:

In "How to Eat a Guava," by Esmeralda Santiago, she talks about all those feelings and how proud she is of being a Puerto Rican herself, so she compares her immersion to the New Yorker culture as all the experience of eating a guava, she mentions how this is a bittersweet experience that involves contradictory sensations just as her adjustment to the change of cultures.