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In this poetic memoir, Engle shares her memories “Enchanted Air: Two Culture, Two Win” of her childhood. She is a person who comes from two different cultures -- Cuba and California. In this quote, Engle describes her terrible, miserable school life in California. She uses three different adjectives to describe how bad she is, they are “long” “worried” and “broken”. These three adjectives show Engle has a really terrible state -- her “long braids” are stiff, she is ignorant with her “worried eyes”, and she does not care about her image with her “broken tooth”. All of Engle’s traits make people feel like a vampire. She writes with a parable. The word “vampire” makes the readers get more easier to understand Engle has a non-ideal condition in

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