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"Put the quote from the story here" (Alvarez 177).
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"We are too different"
(Alvarez 181).
This shows how she is not able to truly have a relationship with the guy she meets in the Dominican Republic. They cannot relate or discuss anything further than basic conversation due to the partial language barrier

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"Kids like us were thrown in the deep end of the public school pool and left to fend for ourselves" (Alvarez 178).
Many children feel like it's them against the world and in this story exemplifies that. The author talks about how they were struggling to convert to English and society made it much harder.

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"She would get better result than he would with his heavy, almost incomprehensive accent." (Alvarez 177)
In my opinion, this is showing how she might be dealing with a hard time understanding his accent since she is new to the way people talk but she will soon get a better understanding.

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"I couldn't explain about women's liberation and the quality of mercy not being strained, in Spanish. I grew bored and lonely..." (Alvarez 179).
This quote is supports the conflict of Alvarez vs. Self, as it shows her struggling to communicate with her family. Although she had complex thoughts and feeling to express, she could only do so in English. This shows her internal conflict.

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"I remember one scene in a grocery store soon after we arrived.  An elderly shopper, overheard my mother speaking Spanish to her daughters, muttered that if we wanted to be in this country, we should learn the language." (Alvarez 177"
This quote shows conflict of Alvarez vs. Society. This shows that other people around them only think they speak Spanish and not English which causes conflict.

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"I felt instantly defensive whenever someone tried to pin me down with a label" (Alvarez 180).
When Mangu calls her La Gringuta, she gets defensive because it brings her back to her childhood when she would get called name, be bullied and teased.

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"Dilitia looked just like the other Dominican girls. She had a teased hair do; I let my long hair hang loose in a style I can only describe as "blowing in the wind" ". This quote is supporting Alvarez vs. Another person because she is comparing herself to a much "prettier" girl showing conflict.

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"Dilitia looked just like the other Dominican girls. She had a teased hair do; I let my long hair hang loose in a style I can only describe as "blowing in the wind" ". This quote is supporting Alvarez vs. Another person because she is comparing herself to a much "prettier" girl showing conflict.

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"In English, I could have said half a dozen ambivalent, soothing things"(Alvarez 181).
This quote can support Alvarez vs. Self due to the situation she was in, Alvarez couldn't remember what to say to Manuel because she did not remember her native language well.

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"She was the first 'hyphenated' person I had ever met whom I considered successful, not tortured as a hybrid the way my sisters and I were," (Alvarez 179).                                                This quote supports the conflict of Alvarez vs. another person because she explains how growing up with her family was difficult and she felt 'tortured' as a hybrid. 

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"She was the first 'hyphenated' person I had ever met whom I considered successful, not tortured as a hybrid the way my sisters and I were," (Alvarez 179).                                                This quote supports the conflict of Alvarez vs. another person because she explains how growing up with her family was difficult and she felt 'tortured' as a hybrid. 

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"At school, there were several incidents of name calling and stone throwing  which teachers claimed would stop if me and my sisters joined in with the others"
When Alvera didn't fit it at school with the others.

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"Our growing distance from Spanish was a way of setting ourselves free from a world where as girls we didn't have much to say" (Alvarez 178). Although moving countries can be scary because they have to learn a completely new culture, it could open a door for a new life.

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" I got thrown in the deep end of the public school pool left to fend for my self." This shows that she had conflict with learning the language fast enough.

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"The truth was I couldn't even imagine myself as someone other than the person I had become in English." (Alvarez 183)
This quote shows how Alvarez is struggling to keep up with her culture she was born into. This supports Alvarez vs. Self because she feels disconnected with her family but at the same time she is happy she learned about this new culture at the same time.

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"At school, there were several incidents of name-calling and stone-throwing, which our teachers claimed would stop if my sisters and I joined in with the other kids and quit congregating together at recess and jabbering away in spanish" (Alvarez 177)

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"At school, there were several incidents of name-calling and stone-throwing, which our teachers claimed would stop if my sisters and I joined in with the other kids and quit congregating together at recess and jabbering away in spanish" (Alvarez 177)

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This shows that they weren't accepted for their origin, and they were expected to change in order to fit in.

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"At school, there were several incidents of name-calling and stone-throwing, which our teachers claimed would stop if my sisters and I joined in with the other kids and quit congregating together at recess and jabbering away in Spanish" (Alvarez 177). This quote shows that before bilingual learning, everyone at their school spoke English and the teachers wanted them to be like all the other students and speak the same language. This also shows how rude people can be if you are "different" or speak another language.

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"And, as I spoke, that old yearning came back. What would my life have been like if I had stayed back in my native country?"(Alvarez, 183). This shows how the character reflects on her past actions and wonders what her life would've been like.

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"A woman who is now looking for land in the Dominican Republic with her husband, so that they can begin to spend some time in the land she came from" (Alvarez 183).
This supports the conflict because it shows that she finally overcame the challenges with her culture and language and that now she is happy with her life.

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"There were areas where we couldn't touch even with a Shakespearean ten-foot pole: the areas of boys and permission to go places where there might be boys, American boys, with their mouths full bubblegum and their minds full of the devil" (Alvarez 178).
This quote shows that her mother and father would not allow her to go see boys or even touch them. No matter how bad she wants to meet them, Alvarez faces her mother and father from not allowing her to go.

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"Inside of a week we both had boyfriends.  Dilta, who was prettier than I, landed handsome tipo, tall Eladio with raven-black hair and arched eyebrows and the arrogant stance of  a flamenco dancer, whereas I ended up with his chubby sidekick, a honey skinned young man with wonderful dimples and a pot belly that made him look like a Dominican version of the Pillsbury doughboy"(Alvarez 180).

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"Inside of a week we both had boyfriends.  Dilta, who was prettier than I, landed handsome tipo, tall Eladio with raven-black hair and arched eyebrows and the arrogant stance of  a flamenco dancer, whereas I ended up with his chubby sidekick, a honey skinned young man with wonderful dimples and a pot belly that made him look like a Dominican version of the Pillsbury doughboy"(Alvarez 180).

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The way she looks is her nature because it's a natural thing she can't control, which is why she got the less handsome man. She never really complains about it but it's a little obvious that she prefired Eladio rather than the Dominican version of Pillsbury doughboy.

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"I talked like a ten-year-old in my halting, childhood spanish" (Alvarez, 179).
Alvarez felt like she struggled speaking Spanish to her peers and felt she was treated like a child because of it.

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" Our Spanish was full of English. Countless times during a conversation, we were corrected, until what we had to say was lost in our saying it wrong. More and more we chose to answer in English even when the question was offered in Spanish. It was a measure of the growing distance between ourselves and our native culture." (Alvarez 178). This supports the conflict of Alvarez vs. Self in the case that as Alvarez and her siblings are learning, accepting, and using English as their primary and prevalent language, Alvarez and her siblings are finding it difficult to speak in their once native tongue and are beginning to disconnect from their background, history, culture, and forming an insurmountably gap between themselves and their previous identity, thus forming a conflict with herself because she is metaphorically losing: herself.

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"I didn't know what to say to him. Or actually, in English, I could have said a dozen ambivalent, soothing things. But not having a complicated vocabulary in Spanish , I didn't  know the fancy, smooth-talking ways of delaying and deterring" (Alvarez 181).
I think this quote really explains a reason why Alvarez is sad that she forgot her Spanish. There was a really good boy she liked but she couldn't speak complicated Spanish anymore and is a reason why she misses her Spanish.