This part of the excerpt seems to be correct as it reveals that the diet alone is responsible for his ninth birthday: "It had plenty of room to expand, thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all."
The correct option is: Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.
"Take the Tortillas out of your Poetry" is an anti-censorship essay written by
Rudolfo Anaya. Anaya was an impoetant part of the Chicano literature movement in the 1960s. They were Mexican writers who express their culture and identuty through their literary pieces. Anaya had to face proffesional difficulties because of his own history of writing about Chicano issues. The fact that his books were burnt was ab example of censorship as a tool of power.
Well, based on the movie that I have watched I would say that Mrs. Bennet is silly, emotional, and irrational.
Answer: The figurative language here ( ‘A tree my baby brothers could lean on’ and ‘the raft that helps carry them over this life’s rough rivers’) Tells me that the writer of this poem is needed to be a ‘breadwinner’ for the family. This can be enforced by the fact that the poem states the family only consists of ‘Mom and us kids’, The author is now tasked with duties such as caring for his baby brothers once his mother is no longer able to. Families without 2 parental figures is normally very straining to the kids and the single parent, only the strongest can withstand the onslaught of caring for kids. Thus letting me know that the meaning of this poem is that family needs to be there for each other because no one else would.
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