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Inside Out By Francisco Jimlenez

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Everyone has been through some sort of situation where they can’t understand another person because of the language you speak or what they speak and how hard it is to learn that language, it takes months or even years to learn half of the easiest languages.
In the story, “Inside Out” by Francisco Jiménez, the main character, Francisco, faces the same thing. Francisco can only speak Spanish and has to attend an American school but luckily he meets someone that can speak some Spanish, Arthur.
Francisco's school affected his learning by not letting him speak Spanish with others and Francisco not being able to understand English.

Francisco can only speak Spanish and every person at his school can only speak English. “‘I got headaches every time I hear Mrs. Scalapino.’”(Pg. 2) …show more content…

Aiming his head directly at me, and pulling his arms straight back with his hands clenched, he stomped up to me and started yelling. I did not understand him, but I knew it had something to do with the jacket because he began to pull on it, trying to take it off me.” (Pg. 4)

Francisco isn’t allowed to talk to his friend, Arthur in Spanish “But when I spoke to Arthur in Spanish and Miss Scalapino heard me, she said “‘NO!’” with body and soul.
Her head turned left and right a hundred times a second and her index finger moved from side to side as fast as a windshield wiper on a rainy day. “‘English, English,’” she repeated.” (Pg. 3)

In “Inside Out” Francisco's school affected his learning by not letting him speak Spanish with others and Francisco not being able to understand English. In the story, “Inside Out” by Francisco Jiménez, the main character, Francisco, faces the same thing. Francisco can only speak Spanish and has to attend an American school but luckily he meets someone that can speak some Spanish,

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