"My daughter, your father, he love you very much," he explained from the bottom of the stairs. "He just want to protect you."
–"Daughter of Invention,"
Julia Alvarez
Read the father’s dialogue. What reveals the uniqueness of his speech?
1 answer
The uniqueness of the father's speech is revealed through his use of broken English and unconventional sentence structure. He uses simple and direct language, omitting certain articles and using present tense instead of past tense.