I would suggest working on word choice, since you used the same words many times in the essay.
That is the answer. :)
The main idea of the following passage from ''In Commemoration: One Million Volumes'' is C. The stories told by los viejitos inspired Anaya's love of words and book. Tone and writing style of this excerpt express an inspiration of someone, in this case - Anaya's admiring of words and book.
It was a terrible life he hated it there
We can infer that the death of Confucius’ son, Carp is ironic, he suffered an early death when the symbolism of the carp fish is longevity, because carps can get very old, it also represents the dragons due to big scales on the body of a carp. According to the meaning of the carp Confucius’ son, Carp, should have a long live which did not happen.
