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Explanation:
After arriving in the United States, Laura would take the girls window- shopping in department stores and try to invent things.
At night she would lie in bed and sketch out household inventions and strange contraptions, like a child's double-compartment drinking glass with a straw.
She thought it was a problem that her daughters wanted to become Americans and would argue with them in English, throwing in odd and confused idioms like "green behind the ears."
She implies that blind submission to political authority represents the essence of dictatorship, injustice, and abuse of authority.
After helping her daughter write the speech, Laura Garcia never invented again.
She felt that she was a good Dominican mother, but a failure as an American Mom.
Her mother offered to help, but Yolanda wanted to do it herself.
Yolanda's response, comparing her father to the dictator Trujillo, draws attention to the aspects of American culture and society that her father left the Dominican Republic to embrace.
Her daughters felt frustrated that she was not able to better help them explore their identities as immigrants and withstand the pressures of discrimination and assimilation that they faced going to American schools.
Yolanda wants her father to recognize that he cannot encourage her to integrate herself into American society without also accepting the aspects of intellectual and civic liberty that do not easily fit into traditional Dominican culture.
They felt that her inventions were a waste of time that she could have spent better supporting their efforts to fit into American culture.
Her mother does not see her speech as evidence of disobedience and disrespect because she appreciates the risks her daughter is willing to take to forge a new American identity for herself.
Her father came home the next day with a new electric typewriter for Yolanda, and apologized for his behavior.
Yolanda's struggle to write in English and create a speech that reflects her own spirit mirrors her mother's struggle to come up with inventions that actually make sense.
One night, she showed Yolanda a sketch of a car bumper with a removable can opener attached, which she thought would be convenient for picnickers.
