Thoughts regarding an excerpt from My Broken Language
This seems like a very interesting story about a Puerto Rican girl and her experience's growing up in a hard working Puerto Rican family. The portion of the story that I read started out where the mom tells her little daughter ((who is learning English) to go out into the woods, talk to the trees and introduce herself to nature. This gave me a chuckle, because it brought back memories of the very first time I encountered an ESL classroom 30 years ago. The teacher was an extremely friendly and upbeat teacher and she knew the importance of letting the students just talk. Her room was always noisy but for good reason. I could picture her telling her students to 'go out and talk to the trees'. And they probably would!!!! I find the story interesting because the author has lived a childhood completely unlike my own. The author tells the story of her journey through life with a mom who worked tirelessly day and night. She questions why her grand...