But the spectre of delivering a speech brown-nosing the teachers jammed her imagination. At first she didn't want to and then sh
e couldn't seem to write that speech. She should have thought of it as "a great honor," as her father called it. But she was mortified. She still had a slight accent, and she did not like to speak in public, subjecting herself to her classmates' ridicule. It also took no great figuring to see that to deliver a eulogy for a convent full of crazy, old, overweight nuns was no way to endear herself to her peers. –“Daughter of Invention,” Julia Alvarez Read the passage about Yoyo. In two to three sentences, explain how language reveals a conflict she experiences.
Answer:Because Yoyo’s first language is not English, she has a unique accent. The other girls at school make fun of her because her speech sounds different than theirs. Yoyo is afraid to stand up in front of her classmates and give a speech because they might make fun of her.
Language is the center of Yoyo's conflict because it is the thing keeping her from feeling confident presenting a speech in front of her classmates. She is afraid that because of her accent they will make fun of her, so she compares the thought of giving the speech to a "spectre", or a ghost looming over her.
Answer: Some details you can include are how the nurse let Juliet get away with certain things she shouldn’t have, and if Lord Capulet wasn’t so selfish, and put aside the drama they could’ve been together the right way.
