LITERARY ANALYSIS: In "A Voice," the speaker shares her fear of how others might perceive her at a speech contest due to her background. How does the speaker's characterization of her mother convey her attitude toward her background?

The speaker of the poem characterizes the mother herself as an immigrant woman who had to face the hostile environment that did not speak the same language as her and therefore rejected her. As a result, the speaker's mother forbade English to be spoken at home, which makes the speaker unsure of the education she received as a child and how it formed her linguistic ability.

Explanation:

"A Voice" is a poem that portrays the experience of an American girl, daughter of Mexican immigrants, in a speech contest. The girl feels insecure about her linguistic ability, because despite speaking English fluently, her mother forbade the use of the language at home as a way to bring comfort to herself, since she had to live in a country that did not speak English. language and was constantly rejected for it.

The speaker feels that she will not be able to deliver a speech using English efficiently, due to her family education.

for me, balancing all your work/homework is the hardest part in high school and the exams.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.