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Which excerpt from "Daughter of Invention" contains language that best reveals that Carlos is still tied to his Dominican origin?
He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "iQue pasa? iQue pasa?"
“...It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked Yoyo's plagiarized words.
"Have you gone mad?" He shook her away. "You were going to let her read that . . . that insult to her teachers?"
He called down curses on her head, ordered her on his authority as her father to open that door!
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The first excerpt:
He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "¡Qué pasa? ¡Qué pasa?"
Why: the use of Spanish (the exclamation "¡Qué pasa?") and the instinctive code-switching make his Dominican linguistic and cultural background explicit — it shows he still speaks and reacts in his native language.
He sat bolt upright, reaching for his glasses which in his haste, he knocked across the room. "¡Qué pasa? ¡Qué pasa?"
Why: the use of Spanish (the exclamation "¡Qué pasa?") and the instinctive code-switching make his Dominican linguistic and cultural background explicit — it shows he still speaks and reacts in his native language.
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