The article is really successful at showing how the girl herself learns the new language and how she as a child overcomes the problems even when her mother does not know English. "I would have to forgo the luxury of adolescent experiments and temper tantrums, so that I could scoop my mother out of harm’s way and give her sanctuary" from the article (p.617) where the girl gives up everything in order to help her mother. Additionally, the author has made really good descriptions of the moments when the girl helps her mother not to feel alone in a new
The article is really successful at showing how the girl herself learns the new language and how she as a child overcomes the problems even when her mother does not know English. "I would have to forgo the luxury of adolescent experiments and temper tantrums, so that I could scoop my mother out of harm’s way and give her sanctuary" from the article (p.617) where the girl gives up everything in order to help her mother. Additionally, the author has made really good descriptions of the moments when the girl helps her mother not to feel alone in a new