Question

In what ways are Francisco's feelings about school divided? What causes this? Support your response with textual evidence from the story.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Francisco's mixed feelings about school can be seen in his attitude when he gets to School and later on when he meets Mr Lema.

Francisco was not very familiar with the English language. He had been made to repeat first grade. In this new school, he was often speechless when people tried to have conversations with him in English. Like when the woman asked is she could help him. He struggled to speak English to explain his need to her. Also while in class he felt so out of place and nervous that he wished he was on the farm picking cotton.

Then Mr Lema his teacher starts to teach him English and when he offered to teach francisco how to play the trumpet, this made him so happy.