The constant fear of feeling like an outsider in public society, induced the author, Rodriguez, to “give up” his family’s language. In Rodriguez fortunate side, the nuns “visitors” encouraged his family to speak English more often, and this helped him to get rid of the sounds of english words that he thought were irritable. Although, at the beginning he explains that coming home meant hearing the language that tied his family together, later on he shows that speaking spanish isn't necessary. Rodriguez states, “I spoke English rather than Spanish. It was because I used public language most of the day.” After overcoming his family’s language, Rodriguez no longer feared sounds. The language thats once seemed hard to distinguish and understand,
