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cvahrenkamp
cvahrenkamp

What is the symbolic meaning that Alvarez states by "losing your language"?

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Posted by cvahrenkamp on Sunday November 18, 2007 at 12:43 PM and tagged with how the garcia girls lost their accents, losing your language.

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  1. amy-lepore Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    What Alvarez means is two things:  1) losing the ability to speak the original language and 2) losing his identity which is attached to the native language.

     

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    Posted by amy-lepore on Sunday November 18, 2007 at 4:34 PM