Bilingual Bilingüe Analysis

Individuates that are from a Spanish speaking household can be difficult in an English speaking country. Some will feel as if they’re being disconnected from everyone else and even their children when they start taking ESL (English as a Second Language). They will start to have a wider spread vocabulary then the parents own and can feel as if they’re being disconnected from them as well. In the poem Bilingual/Bilingüe by Rhina Espaillat this struggle is shown. This poem shows how family relationship can be affected from a language barrier by causing emotional, cultural and educational differences.
A language barrier can affect the emotional aspect of a family as well; this is shown frequently in Espaillat poem. Some examples of this would be