Question 1
Marquez explains that her and her family haven't adopted English as an official family language because of the respect they have for their parents. Also, speaking Spanish is part of their culture and it brings them much comfort.
If I were around the three of them I wouldn't feel as though they were being rude. I have a different view, I guess because I know Spanish and I have Latino friends. If i didn't know Spanish though, I still wouldn't consider it rude. A person speaks their own language for many reasons. It can be that the people they're with knows little to no English or that they more comforter with their own language.
Question 4
Marquez stops speaking Spanish when there is a non-Spanish speaker around. I think that its great gesture. If i were around someone that didn't speak Spanish, I wouldn't speak it because it would not want them to be left out in the conversation. If it were a private conversation that I didn't want them to hear, I would have it at a different time.
This piece is so powerful because the reader is able to understand how language is so important to many people and the things they have to deal with for speaking it.
Whats valuable about this genre is that it's more personal and that many people can relate to it.
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