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Maria Marquez English 101 Essay #1 Essay On "Coming Into Language" In "Coming Into Language," Jimmy Santiago Baca describes how he went from being illiterate to learning how to read and write and eventually becoming a poet, while spending most of his days in prison. Terrified of not knowing his schoolwork and asking questions, Baca went through school being illiterate, until he dropped out in the ninth grade. Picture books with people of his nationality were the only type of interest. Listening to prisoners read out loud to each other inspired him to learn his own language. In this writing Baca explains to his readers how becoming a writer helped him trough the tough years as an inmate in prison. Unable to express what he felt, Baca rebelled and was arrested before he was eighteen. In prison he met inmates who read to each other, and through...

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