Varinder Dhindsa T00602866 English 1100 – 08 Dr. Yaying Zhang Summary: ‘From Outside, In' In ‘From Outside, In' Barbara Mellix discusses her experience of learning standard English and presents how this experience disclosed a plethora of possibilities to her. Mellix although at first struggled with standard English but later found herself obsessed with learning it and strived to master this language and this lead her to fathom the "generative power of language.''(267) Mellix starts the article by explaining the difference in situations where she used Black-English or Standard-English. She points out that Black-English was used with close friends or with family and relatives whereas Standard-English was used to converse with strangers or white