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?
O Anaya uses words that lack emotional connotations to present a painful anecdote from his life.
O Anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books
Anaya establishes his credibility as a published Chicano author by referring to his first novel.
O Anaya delivers a passionate argument against the ability of school boards to ban books