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Compare Spheres of Influence (Kingston vs. Rodriguez) In the articles Public and Private Life by Richard Rodriguez (LS pg.282) and The Misery of Silence by Maxine Hong Kingston (LS pg. 269) I see two basic spheres of Influence that affected these children’s advancement in their struggle to understand English. The schooling influence is enormous, and for both of these children, the majority of their schooling was unsatisfactory. The family influence is also a big part of these children's development, and the strategies and effects of the two different families vary a great deal. With these influences introduced, I shall discuss the similarities and differences of these spheres and how they affected the children’s development in the two different stories. The effects of poor schooling are very apparent in these two children’s lives. Rodriguez attended a school of religious sorts that was taught by nuns without the least bit of knowledge on how to teach English as a second language. What they understood was that I needed to speak a public language. So their voices would search me out, asking me questions. Each time I’d hear them, I’d look up to see a nun’s face frowning at me. I’d mumble, not really meaning english, rodriguez, children, family, teachers, kingston, affected, two, sphere, schooling, public, ls, influence, life, way, understand, speak, private, parents, nuns, language, home, different, without, very, until, time, teacher, spheres, school, same, richard, questions, pg, much, look, learned, felt, development, connect, class, children’s, allowed, york, vary, understood, therefore, taught, talk, studies