Deaf Issues and Awareness in Lou Ann Walker's "A Loss For Words"

Kelley Lynn Tasca
English #16
April 11,2002


Kiss of Death



Interpretations

3. The phrase “Anglo kiss of death” to Rendon means being torn apart from his culture

and not being able to speak the language of his origin. He faced a quandary of

individuality and route of his native language and was assimilated into the English

language forgetting his spoken language. I think being Chicano to doesn’t mean more to

Rendon than his ancestry, family, education, or culture. I think with the help of his

ancestry, education, and family he came to respect and appreciate his domination in the

world as being Chicano. I think since he came to recognize the importance of being

Chicano it now means a lot to him a holds a special value to him.

4. The criticisms “monolingual, monocultural, and colorless” are valid criticisms in the

eyes of Rendon ...