Question

Read the poem entitled “El Olvido” and answer the question that follows. El Olvido by Judith Ortiz Cofer It is a dangerous thing to forget the climate of your birthplace to choke out the voices of dead relatives when in dreams they call you by your secret name. 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 for you with embarrassing fervor that you survive in the place you have chosen to live: a b