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Personal Reflective Essay/Analysis of a Personal Context/Reader Response

Avila, Melissa "Trapped in the Middle"

This essay is a close reading of Gloria Anzaldua's "The Homeland" in which Melissa interweaves her personal response with analysis.  She examines the complexity of being Portugese in American culture.