Read the excerpt from Julia Ortiz Cofer’s poem "El Olvido." It is dangerous to spurn the clothes you were born to wear for the sake of fashion; dangerous to use weapons and sharp instruments you are not familiar with; dangerous to disdain the plaster saints before which your mother kneels praying with embarrassing fervor that you survive in the place you have chosen to live: The items listed in this excerpt symbolize
Answer
A
the fervent religious beliefs of the speaker’s mother.
B
the ways of life that are unfamiliar to the speaker.
C
the speaker’s desire to forget embarrassing traditions.
D
the traditions and customs of the speaker’s native land.