Identify the specific ways they engage with language

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Question: Focusing on one character in The Coconut Children, identify the specific ways they engage with language and explain how it influences their understanding and response to their particular environment. In your response, refer to the passage from p. 242 below, any other passages from The Coconut Children, and at least ONE other text studied in the subject (Shelley's Frankenstein to either support or challenge this your answer.

"I've been thinking about what you said the other day, about having another language to think in. Both of us grew up speaking Viet. But the voice in my head isn't Vietnamese. I think it used to be. It's weird. I feel like, in Vietnamese, I'm still just a th?ng giang h? that can't talk to his mum."

Sonny knew he had meant to say, when I speak in Vietnamese. But she found something in his mistake.

"And who are you in English?"

He was surprised by the question. His first response was to shrug his shoulders and stare at a nearby point. "I don't know. English is even weirder. I always felt like I was talking in some shady bootleg version of it. Like them movies they sell on the street corner-an imitation of the real thing."

Sonny pinched a fast-food towelette around her fingertips philosophically. "Maybe it only felt like that because you thought you had to repeat after someone else just to speak." Staring at the water stain on the table, she nudged the corner of the wet wipe under her thumbnail and scraped away some dirt under the half-moon as her thoughts drew her deeper. "But then you started using your own words." She looked up at Vince with a smile. "English used to belong to people like Shakespeare. Now it belongs to people like us." (242)

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