Read the excerpt from "Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry.”
For me, reading has always been a path toward liberation and fulfillment. To learn to read is to start down the road of
liberation, a road which should be accessible to everyone. No one has the right to keep you from reading, and yet that
is what is happening in many areas in this country today. There are those who think they know best what we should
read. These censors are at work in all areas of our daily lives.
To convince readers that censors have unjust motives, the author uses rhetoric to appeal mostly to
to