Just two years ago, the editor of a major publishing firm asked me to submit a story for a middle school reader. those readers have the power to shape how thousands of children think about mexican americans. the criteria were: "it can't have religion in it; it can't be mystical; it can't have spanish in it." everything that was in bless me, ultima was rejected out of hand before the publisher would look at a manuscript. needless to say, i did not submit a story. —"take the tortillas out of your poetry," rudolfo anaya the voice of this anecdote establish the idea that anaya is to influence middle school students by teaching them about mexican americans. disappointed because a publishing company will not accept what anaya believes is a good mexican american story. annoyed that the publishers rejected his story without bothering to read it.

The first answer is- an anecdote about a personal experience

The second answer is- disappointed because a publishing company will not accept what Anaya believes is a good Mexican American story.

Explanation:

Because I got it right.

arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

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