Read the following 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
a the ways of life that are unfamiliar to the speaker.
b the fervent religious beliefs of the speaker’s mother.
c the speaker’s desire to forget embarrassing traditions.
d the traditions and customs of the speaker’s native land.