The Silencer In the narrative “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle”, by Min-zhan Lu, she struggles to discern between two language discourses she grows up with, the one she is expected to use at school and the one she is expected to use at home. In doing so, she uses language as a tool for survival: “Being the eager student, I adopted this view of language as a tool for survival. It came to …showed first 75 words of 428 total…

…showed last 75 words of 428 total…It would be a problem for children mostly, as adults wouldn’t have to rely so heavily on English, as the children would be in American schools. The children would have a difficult time adjusting to the English used in school as their minds would be translating everything in their primary language. This would make schooling very hard and is a perfect example of what Min-zhan Lu was talking about in her narrative. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**