Read the excerpt from “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” in other cases, the censoring has been direct and brutal. on february 28, 1981 the morning newspaper carried a story about the burning of my novel, bless me, ultima. the book was banned from high school classes in bloomfield, new mexico, and a school board member was quoted as saying: “we took the books out and personally saw that they were burned.” which best describes how anaya effectively uses rhetorical appeal to convince readers that censorship is a tool of the powerful? anaya uses words that lack emotional connotations to present a painful anecdote from his life. anaya presents facts from a newspaper story about school board members burning his books. anaya establishes his credibility as a published chicano author by referring to his first novel. anaya delivers a passionate argument against the ability of school boards to ban books. mark this and return