Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and…

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. It is Christmas Eve in the year of Huitziloochtli, 1969. Three hundred Chicanos have gathered in front of St. Basil’s Roman Catholic Church. Three hundred brown-eyed children of he sun have come to drive the money-changers out of the richest temple in Los Angeles. It is a dark moonless night and ice-cold wind meets us at the doorstep. We carry little white candles as weapons. In pairs on the sidewalk, we trickle and bump and sing with the candles in our hands, like a bunch of cockroaches gone crazy. I am walking around giving orders like a drill sergeant.

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and…

Identify the name of the author, the title of the work, and the national origin of the writer. Then analyze the passage. “Oh please, m’ijo, don’t talk that way. Don’t speak against the will of God. Don’t talk that way, please, m’ijo. You scare me. It’s as if already the blood of Satan runs through your veins.” “Well, maybe. That way at least, I could get rid of this anger. I’m so tired of thinking about it. Why? Why you? Why Dad? Why my uncle? Why my aunt? Why their kids? Tell me, Mother, why? Why us, burrowed in the dirt like animals with no hope for anything? You know the only hope we have is coming out here every year. And like you yourself say, only death brings rest. I think that’s the way my aunt and uncle felt and that’s how Dad must feel too.”