1.Speech: Margarita speaks a blend of english and spanish as she keeps communication with her father, who counts strokes and asks her questions in spanish and gives her directions in english. Margarita's brother, Simon curses and taunts her in english as he recieves new material to bring down the spirit of the family with every so often from the television. Her grandmother, Abuela speaks primarily in spanish as she converses with the mother, Aida who is completly wrapped up in the idea of her family being in the spotlight. Aida speaks in both languages as she makes spanish commentary with Abuela and scolds Simon and talks about the tevlevision station's helicoper reporters in english.
2. The author raises an argument about language and communication and illustrates that the most important things to the action in the plot line are usually spoken in the language that feels the most comfortable to the speaker. (Spanish)The personality and prominence of character is shown through the speaker's second language.(English) This can lead to arguing that language is used as an effect; different languages convey different levels of concern of each member of the family and their emotions as they percieve the difficulty of Margarita's situation as a swimmer.
3. Based on my analysis, I believe that in the Cuban Swimmer language is used to put a filter on dialogue that displays each character's level of concern and set of emotions as they observe the event going on around them.
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