Silko goes back to a moment in time before her birth to explain the reader the reason why she and her sisters have nothing in common to other girls in the town, in Laguna Pueblo. They were not white girls.
As an Indian girl, Silko explains how white people arrived to Laguna Pueblo and separated Indians offspring from his parents.
Silko is a character that appears in the story "<em>Yellow Woman and the Beauty of Spirit"</em>, written by Leslie Marmol.
The issue showed in this excerpt of A Modern proposal is poverty, and the author deal with it satirizing the economy of the nation and the responsibility of the government to take care of sick and old people that are not able to work and be productive.
These people become a burden to the nation, that does not want to deal with them but hide the poverty, by saying they are concerned about the poor people.
My best guess would be generalization
By using the extended metaphor of Rosa Parks as a warrior