In the poem Elena by Pat Mora, she talks about a mother recalling about her live in Mexico with her children. She has since moved to the United States and she now feels disconnected from her children and feels like does not fit in with American culture because she does not speak English. The poem begins by saying “my Spanish isn’t good enough”. In this line he refers to her Spanish as no longer being a necessity now that she lives in America. It is now hard for her to communicate with others and with her children, where as in Mexico it was easy for her to communicate. The poem goes on to say, “Now my children go to American high schools. They speak English”. She feels that her children are disconnecting from their Mexican culture because they