Read these sentences from the story: "now the head-man of these russians was ivan. he it was, with his two thumbs, who drove out the eyes of kinoos. he it was who fought his way through the white water, with two men left of all his men, and went away along the rim of the great fog sea into the north." which sentence best explains the central idea of this section of the story?

Read the excerpt from “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” i do not believe we should have to leave out the crucial elements of our language and culture to contribute to american literature, but, unfortunately, this is a conclusion i am forced to reach. i have been writing for a quarter century, and have been a published author for eighteen years. as a writer, i was part of the chicano movement which created a new literature in this country. which type of rhetoric is used most in the excerpt to convince readers that anaya’s conclusion is accurate? an appeal based on emotion an appeal based on logic an appeal based on the author’s character an appeal based on the author’s feelings