To begin with, the central or main idea of the paragraph is “at Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign”. From the text I can infer that Ernesto, and the other kids learn to speak/understand the English language but don’t need to lose what they know, and love. Another inference I can make from the text is that Ernesto and his classmate share stories, and objects with the class. Ernesto and his classmates also experience a certain moment of glory that is no more better than one or the other of learning how to speak English. A sentence from the text says“Ernesto has learned how to pronounce butterfly !”. From the beginning to the end Ernesto changes from being intimidated by the way it looks from his old school in Mazatlan to feeling more comfortable at his school. From the text It says “ I noticed other differences, none of them very reassuring”. Another sentence from the text is “step by step, she loosened me…show more content… I can infer that because on sentence 3 it said that none of the things that he saw were the same from when he was at Mazatlan. Another thing I can infer from is that when he saw friends from the barrio they had told him it was a principal not a director, and that it was a lady not a man. Another thing I can infer from the text is that when Miss. Nettie or Miss. Ryan talks to Ernesto in english he does not understand. From the text I found “ it was a new building, painted yellow, with a shingled roof that was not like the red tile of the school in Mazatlán”. Another sentence from the text I found was “ what Miss Hopley said to us we did not know but we saw in her eyes a warm welcome”. Another inference from the text is over the next two weeks he had gotten used to ladies that were tall and energetic. From the text I found “ during the next few weeks Miss Ryan overcame my fears of tall, energetic
