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Summary Of From Outside In By Barbara Melix

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In Barbara Mellix literacy narrative “From Outside, In”, she took us through her life as an outsider to eventually getting in. A young Mellix, along with her family developed public personas that spoke standard English. In public, Barbara's enunciation, articulation and grammar changed dramatically from how she spoke at home. She felt uncomfortable when she puts on this persona and felt like she was basically betraying herself. After couple years of putting on this front she became this front. Eventually, she no longer felt like two people, but just one. Barbara Mellix wrote “The language was not ours. It was something from outside of us, something we used for special occasions”(79). It’s something I am experiencing currently. When I first
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