Observations and Inferences of "Coming Into Language"

1.  This piece is an autobiography of Jimmy Baca.
2. I have done some reports on that genre before in high school and middle school, including with Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali.  I expect to hear about lots of aspects of his life and about his family and friends and childhood. Normally in an order from his younger life to his later life.
3.  The title of this story makes me think that the author is going to have to learn a new language in a new area that he has just moved to.
4. I do not know anything about the author at all.
5..The sentences are generally longer and not choppy.  They flow good and are written in a personal tone, as if the author was talking to me.


I infer that Jimmy Baca had a hard childhood and was not watched over by his parents much.  The only reason he would be able to drop out of school in the 9th grade is if his parents needed help with money and needed him to work or if they just didn't care.  If they cared more they would have let him get a better education and move forward in life and not end up in jail.  I think that his anger comes from the emptiness that he had in his childhood.  He might be angry towards how his parents weren't there for him.

I infer that when he writes, it acts as a form of therapy for him.  When something negative in his life happens he writes about it and it makes him feel better.  An example is when he is talking about how much writing helps him Baca says, "Writing bridged my divided life of prisoner and free man" (Baca 52).  Writing could help him escape the deep and dark reality he was living behind bars.  It was the only thing that could help him and make him feel free again.