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"Put the quote from the story here" (Alvarez 177).
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"Those were the days before bilingual education or multicultural studies, when kids like us were thrown in the deep end of the public school pool and left to fend for ourselves. Not everyone came up for air." (Alvarez 177-178)
This quote explains that in that current time there wasn't really anyone like her and she was different. There was no such thing as a bilingual kid and she didn't have any safety net. She was different and kids don't like that. She was thrown into something some people couldn't make out of.

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"Maybe my tias were right. Too much education in English could spoil a girl's chances in Spanish" (Alvarez 180).
The conflict this quote shows is her realizing the missed opportunities she has now that she has lost her first language. She was so focused on what speaking English could bring her, she didn't think about how losing Spanish could effect her. She regrets her past choice to not continue speaking Spanish, because of what it cost her.

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"Utcho and Betty treated me like a ten-year-old because I talked like one in my halting, childhood Spanish" (Alvarez 179).
She is mad that Utcho and Betty treated her like she was younger than she was. Because Alvarez left when she was young, she only knew easy Spanish, not the complexed vocabulary like she does in English.

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"But Mangu would not have been interested in the stars anyway." (Alvarez 182). This shows how Mangu and her were growing apart

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"I wanted to regain the language that would allow me to feel at home again in my native country" (Alvarez 183). Learning a new language can be a hard thing, but when he learned it, she really was forgetting her native language; Spanish. After forgetting her Spanish, she didn't try to pick the language back up. She was then hard on herself for forgetting it. Losing her Spanish lost another part of her that she didn't know would have an effect. She regrets not being able to continue to speak Spanish.

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"Somos diferente, Mangu. The comment came out sounding insane." This quote is an example of Alvarez Vs. Another Person because its a conflict between her and her at the time boyfriend. They're arguing because she can't keep a deep conversation with him and she thinks that it is an issue and tells him that they're different.

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"By now, we couldn't go back as easily as that. 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 posed in Spanish" (Alvarez 178). After being in the U.S. for so long and speaking English everyday, she is feeling like she is beginning to lose her roots and heritage. She struggles to try and go back into her old world now that she is fully immersed in a new one. She is starting to realize the struggle of being bilingual and having to choose one language.

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"By now, we couldn't go back as easily as that. Our Spanish was full of English. Countless times during a conversation, we were corrected...". This develops the conflict the author feels between herself and her family and her original people. She sees the distance she's moving away from her roots. She is also worried that this burning bridge can't be rebuilt.

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"An elderly shopper, overhearing 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 shows that there were Americans that were constantly judging them unfairly when they think they can't speak English. They consistently receive criticism.

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"At school, there were several incidents of name calling and stone throwing, which our teachers claimed would stop if me and my sisters joined the other kids and quit congregating together bat recess and jabbering away in Spanish" (Alvarez 177) This is showing conflict with the society around her because they weren't excepted in the new school and it was difficult for them to make friends and not get made fun of.

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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 posed in Spanish. It was a measure of the growing distance between ourselves and our native culture- a distance we all felt we could easily retrace with just a little practice." (178)

Alvarez realizes that she is not able to go back to fluently expressing her ideas in Spanish, even though she is able to understand it. At first, it was evident that she was choosing to speak English over Spanish, but she eventually realized that this only widened the gap between her English and Spanish speaking abilities.

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"I couldnt carry on in Spanish about complicated subjects, and Mangu didnt know a word of English." The conflict is that she cant fully communicatewith Mangu because she doesnt know how to say these complicated subjects in Spanish and this is showing her slow disconnection with spanish

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"No we're not" he argued back. "We're both Dominicans. Our families came from the same hometown." This is a conflict against Alvarez vs. Society because Mangu is basically saying to her that since they are both the same nationality, they should be together. That goes against society because a lot of families believe that people of the same race, ethnicity, or nationality should be together for certain reasons.

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"When the matrons in town complained about our miniskirts or about driving around with boys, and no chaperons, Mamcam threw up her hands and said... There American girls."(Alvarez 179-180).  The people of the own did not like American girls because they thought they were so different from the "Dominicans". And that they just didn't like how they acted because they think the people from New York were crazy. That they were unexpectable with how they looked aswell.

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"The truth was I couldn't imagine myself as someone other than the person I had become in English." (Alvarez 183).
Alvarez is saying that she cannot picture her life as a normal Dominican girl after being raised in the United States. This is an internal conflict because although she still has her memories of her summer trips and knows her family is from there, she cannot help but feel like an imposter in her own skin.

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" our growing distance from spanish was a way in which we were setting ourselves free from that old world where, as girls, we didnt have much say abiut what we could do with our lives" (Alvarez 178.) This quote explains how before she imigrated, it was like other people controlled her own life and she was excited to start over and decide things for herself.

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"a distance we all felt we could easily retrace with just a little practice. It wasn't until I failed at first love, in Spanish, that I realized how unbridgeable that gap had become" (Alvarez 179).
This quote shows that her and her sisters didn't realize how much they had pulled away from there roots, until she had a very eye opening experience.