Which of the following excerpts from sandra cisneros’s story "mericans" best reveals the influence of mexican culture on the children?
a) “the awful grandmother has been gone a long time. she disappeared behind the heavy leather outer curtain and the dusty velvet inner.”
b) “but we’re outside in the sun. my big brother junior hunkered against the wall with his eyes shut.”
c) “maybe and most probably my little brother is imagining he’s a flying feather dancer, like the ones we saw swinging high up from a pole on the virgin’s birthday.”
d) “after all that dust and dark, the light from the plaza makes me squinch my eyes like if i just came out of the movies.”

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.