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PART A What tone is established in the poem, Legal Alien?

A. Content
B. Conflicted
C. Unemotional
D. Dramatic​

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Answer:

B) Conflicted

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The reason for why the answer is B is because of how the narrator says that she feels as if she is "A handy token/ Sliding back and forth/ Between the fringes of both worlds." What this means is that the narrator feels they don't fit in with neither Anglos, meaning native born Americans, nor Mexicans. This is how many Mexican Americans feel in real life. Furthermore, we see a deeper description of this situation in line 8, where it says the author feels as if they are "American but hyphenated," with the hyphen singling her out. The last piece of evidence that I could find is in lines 9-11, where it says "Viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,/ Perhaps inferior, definitely different,/ Viewed by Mexicans as alien." Overall, these three lines shows us how the narrator feels judged by both Mexicans and Americans as "Alien" all the time, showing us that the narrator is conflicted with the fact that they are always going to be pre-judged.

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Answer:

D. Dramatic​

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