English, 27.07.2021 06:10 prayingfeet7799

Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.” In other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. On February 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, Bless Me, Ultima. The book was banned from high school classes in Bloomfield, New Mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: “We took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.”

Which best describes how Anaya effectively uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censorship is a tool of the powerful?
1.Anaya uses words that lack emotional connotations to present a painful anecdote from his life.
2.Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books.
3.Anaya establishes his credibility as a published Chicano author by referring to his first novel.
4.Anaya delivers a passionate argument against the ability of school boards to ban books

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Read the excerpt from “Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.” In other cases, the censoring has be...