I need a sentence to elaborate on the second piece of evidence, without being to similar to the first piece of evidence, and a good conclusion, please. I am seriously so lost.
The main/central idea of Ernesto Galarza's memoir, "Barrio Boy", is having to adapt to new things while still keeping your true self. In the text, it says, "Miss Hopley and her teachers never let us forget why we were at Lincoln: for those who were alien, to become good Americans; for those who were so born, to accept the rest of us.. . The school was not so much a melting pot as a griddle where Miss Hopley and her helpers warmed knowledge into us and roasted racial hatreds out of us. (paragraph 16)" In other words, this shows how Ernesto is learning to adapt to speaking English but is still trying to keep true to himself by trying to teach Miss Ryan Spanish. Another example of this can be found in paragraph 17, where Galarza explains, "It was easy for me to feel that becoming a proud American, as she said we should, did not mean feeling ashamed of being a Mexican."
