Language is the center of Yoyo's conflict because it is the thing keeping her from feeling confident presenting a speech in front of her classmates. She is afraid that because of her accent they will make fun of her, so she compares the thought of giving the speech to a "spectre", or a ghost looming over her.
Wallace uses dialogue to show the conflict that can occur between inner perceptions of self and outside perceptions of self.
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She wants her mother to feel differently about her.
She feels a strong need for independence.
She wants to influence her mother's behavior.
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