If we leave out our tortillas – and by that i mean the language, history, cultural values and themes of our literature – the very culture we’re portraying will die. publishing has often forced us to do just that. trade publishers who control publishing in this country continue to have a very narrow view of the literature of this country. —“take the tortillas out of your poetry,” rudolfo anaya anaya uses the word “tortillas” as a symbol for .

it is the nurture that decides the behavior of a child.

explanation:

naturally, children are pure. it is an environment and the type of attention a child gets that determines their behavior.  

i it is b. but if its not sorry

since he could see color, and nobody else could, he didn't find it fair that everyone else in the utopia couldn't see color but him and the giver : d

d. it compares the speaker reflection to a predatory bird that haunts the speaker