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Summary Of Living In Spanish By Marjorie Agosin

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Living In Spanish Living in Spanish is an essay written by Marjorie Agosin. Agosin was born and raised in Chile but is of Russian and Australian Jewish descent. During her time in high school, she was forced to leave the place she had called home her whole life due to the government of Salvador Allende being overthrown by dictator Augusto Pinochet. In Living in Spanish Agosin expresses her love for her native tongue and tells the audience what it was like to have to live in translation. Agosin appeals to the reader's emotions in hopes to get the reader to understand the alienation in language and fear of confusion she lived. Agosin explains how it is to live with the need to translate everything. She goes on to explain how growing up she was
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