Read each quotation from Barrio Boy and the statement below it. Which statement is a correct inference based on the quotation?

You never knew when a compadre or comadre, of your aunt, or your uncle, or your father, or your mother was watching. Ernesto's childhood was tense at times.

People talked to one another on the street in low tones; only drunks and muchachitos mal educados raised their voices, or the arrieros when they shouted to their donkeys. Ernesto's family owned a donkey.

Our train was still there, the flats and boxcars and coaches deserted, Mexican and American soldiers walking back and forth. Ernesto felt safe at the train station.

We stayed only one day at the hotel, long enough for me to become acquainted with the bathtub, located in another closet next to the toilet.

Ernesto normally takes a bath every day.

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Melody Fitzgerald

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25 September, 23:36

Read each quotation from Barrio Boy and the statement below it. Which statement is a correct inference based on the quotation?

You never knew when a compadre or comadre, of your aunt, or your uncle, or your father, or your mother was watching. Ernesto's childhood was tense at times.

People talked to one another on the street in low tones; only drunks and muchachitos mal educados raised their voices, or the arrieros when they shouted to their donkeys. Ernesto's family owned a donkey.

Our train was still there, the flats and boxcars and coaches deserted, Mexican and American soldiers walking back and forth. Ernesto felt safe at the train station.

We stayed only one day at the hotel, long enough for me to become acquainted with the bathtub, located in another closet next to the toilet.

Ernesto normally takes a bath every day.

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Ayaan Castro · Answer 1

"You never knew when a compadre or comadre, of your aunt, or your uncle, or your father, or your mother was watching."

Ernesto's childhood was tense at times.

Paige Reeves · Answer 2

"You never knew when a compadre or comadre, of your aunt, or your uncle, or your father, or your mother was watching."

Ernesto's childhood was tense at times.

This quote shows that when Ernesto was growing up he was always aware that someone could be watching him at all times. Whether it was a friend of his aunt or uncle or mother or father, it might have been tense to know he had to always be careful of what he was doing in case word got back to his family.