The author i'm conversing with is Gloria Anzaldua i suppose, and the page number of the paragraph is 165, right near the begining. The paragraph begins:"I want you to speak English."
In my paper my main points are how other affect the authors view of herself. Even her own mother was "mortified that i spoke english like a mexican." This hurts her own view of herself, if she can't use her own voice and speak the way she wants to. Later on in her life she went off to college where she was "required to take two speech classes. The purpose: to get rid of [her] accent."
Anzaldua throughout her life is told that her language and the way she speaks it are not good enought for the world she lives in, both her mother and her education shame her into feeling that speaking like mexican is wrong and should never be done.
Anzaldua feels shamefull about the way she speaks due to the influence of others.
I understand the university policy on plagersim.