Answer:
The poetry of Walt Whitman celebrating himself provided the narrator with the inspiration to overcome her writer's block and write her speech.
Explanation:
<u>Writer's block is when a person is not able to produce any work or write anything new and the mind went blank</u>. This happens mainly due to the <u>inability of the writer to create creative content </u>or have creative ideas or even <u>health or personal issues, or in this case, the language and cultural background of the writer.</u>
Ju lia Alvarez's "Daughter of Invention" revolves around the story of a young girl from the Dominican Republic and her life in America. Coming from another country, and feeling insecure and inferior with the feeling of indebtedness to the American lifestyle, she felt unable to express herself properly, along with her inability to grasp the English language and speak so fluently. So, when she had to give a speech on Teacher's Day and was looking for ways to make her speech, she found it hard to even start writing anything for the speech. But going through the poetry of Walt Whitman, she got inspired by the words that the poet used, <em>"I celebrate myself and sing myself"</em>, <em>"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher"</em> etc. It was unlike the teachings that she'd learned in her school under the nuns, where they were taught to be 'meek', 'giving' etc. Whitman's poem is a celebration of himself and provides a <em>"boastful"</em> appreciation of his own personality, which the girl's father thinks<em> "shows no gratitude"</em>.
But<u> it was this writer that provides the inspiration to get past her writer's block and write her speech.</u>
Yes they do because they are the ones that are learning
Based on this passage, an inference can be made about the English teacher is She did not pay attention to Julia’s real name. Thus, option "A" is correct.
<h3>How, explain your answer briefly?</h3>
The text shows how the author has had certain difficulties with the American culture to which she should adopt. For this reason, her parents formed strategies for her to become more comfortable with the new culture and to take pleasure in some activities, so they started calling the poets "my friend" so they would show support for the fact that she started writing poems and help her better adapt to the United States.
Thus, option "A" is correct.
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