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The Power Of Language By Sandra Cisneros
The most interesting, and most personal narrate for me was ’’ The Power of Language’’ by Malcolm X because I have feel sometimes I can’t communicate with some people and I need to learn how to. Dialogue is in the narrative is used to make to story more personal an example of this is showed in the narrate ‘’Only Daughter’’ by Sandra Cisneros where she writes ‘’I am the only daughter in a family of six sons. That explains everything.’’. I believe the dialogue help to move and understand the main point of the narratives because it gave the narrative a more personal tone to the

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