1) The author's main purpose is to persuade you through Ethos. Trying to give you a problem, then a solution, to show that he is fair. The author is trying to present these issues so that you are aware of what is going on. He is comparing it to various countries to show what they are doing and to encourage others to do the same. Explaining that the countries with the power and authority can help, being the more developed countries.
2) Pretty much the same as the first one, except, with the smoke health part, it is to portray how people need better way's to get fuel, or it will cost the country
Anwser is a and I’m not good at explaining but yh .
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11.c. maintain control over her own life and leave Mango Street one day
> Alicia kept telling about her sense of responsibility, that she has to know who she is.
12.b. powerlessness
> Mamacita found it hard to integrate into the local culture since she was from Mexico and she speaks no English making her helpless and lonely.
13.d. the incident in the monkey garden and the assault at the carnival
> instead of getting helped when she told Tito's mother and confronted the boys to help her, she was ridiculed by them(Sally and the boys) instead
14.a. a means of maintaining her freedom
> Lupe told her to keep writing because it will keep her free.
15.she must speak for those people she knows who cannot speak for themselves.
> she was out of the house on the mango street but she's worried and she wanted to go back for the rest and help them.
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