Blog #8

 

Quote 1:

"In an instant, they agreed to give up the language (the sounds) that had revealed and accentuated our family's closeness."

This quote is telling how the church asked them to have their children speak English at home. They complied and are now giving up their family's language because of the church. I don't believe that anyone should have a say in what happens within someone's household other than the parents.

Quote 2:

"The family's quiet was partly due to the fact that, as we children learned more and more English, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents."

This quote is saying how now that they've all learned English, they're interacting with people in their classes and neighbor hoods so they're never really at home. This caused the family to become more distant and not communicate with their family as often.

Quote 3: 

"I would have been happier about my public success had I not sometimes recalled what it had been like earlier, when my family had conveyed its intimacy through a set of conveniently private sounds."

Although they've successfully learned English, it doesn't make them integrally happy. They loved how their life was before and it didn't need any fixing. Now that the Church forced them to learn English, they're not a intimate family anymore.

These quotes make me feel empathy towards the family's journey. They got pressured into learning a new langue by the church which caused their family to become more distant from one another. It broke down their culture and family language that now they don't even feel comfortable calling their parents the same name that they used to refer to them as.