1. You can see through the comparison to a mountain, that the grandpa is tall and always there 'looming' (hovering) over the speaker. You can see that the speaker does not speak much around his grandpa, as he is "silent as a stone".
2. These details show that the speaker is impressed by his grandpa and looks up to him the way a stone would look up to a mountain-it shows that he hopes one day he will grow to be like his grandpa.
3. The theme of this poem is shown through the way the speaker looks at his grandpa and the shed. The shed needs more than paint because it is so old, which relates to his grandpa and the theme of growing older.
Answer:
Gloria Anzaldúa.
Explanation:
The given quote is taken from the book "Light in the dark" written by Gloria E. Anzaldua.
Gloria Anzaldua played a major role in the movement of Chicano and Chicana. She was prominent in queer theory. She was an activist, poet, theorist.
In the book "Light in the Dark", Gloria speaks and comment on various issues.
In the given quote, she is speaking about how can one become "Nepantlera". Nepantlera in Chicano and Latin is a concept.
He summarizes what already had occurred.
