What does Carlos' language reveal about his character?
O His accent gets stronger when he is angry
His English vocabulary is somewhat limited,
O He doesn't understand what his daughter wrote.
O He has trouble speaking clearly in English
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention".
"What ees wrrrong with her eh-speech?" Carlos
wagged his head at her. His anger was always more
frightening in his broken English. As if he had mutilated
the language in his fury and now there was nothing to
stand between them and his raw, dumb anger. "What is
wrong? I will tell you what is wrong. It show no
gratitude. It is boastful. I celebrate myself? The best
student learns to destroy the teacher?" He mocked
Yoyo's plagiarized words, "That is insubordinate. It is
improper. It is disrespecting of her teachers-" In his
anger he had forgotten his fear of lurking spies each
wrong he voiced was a decibel higher than the last
outrage. Finally, he shouted at Yoyo, "As your father, 1
forbid you to make that en-speech!"