How did the author make me feel as a reader?

I read the literacy narrative, Always Living in Spanish, and I personally thought the author was great, and my favorite thing about her narrative was that her story connecting everything in her life to literacy and she truly cared about the subject of writing, but to her it was much more than writing. Whenever she wrote in Spanish there was a different feel, another one of those connections, except, this connection was a visit back to her home, where she didn’t feel like an outcast for once.

All of it seemed more personal than just a narrative, but it was still a narrative. The author made me feel like I wasn’t reading about her; I was her, and all of a sudden I was in the hallways struggling with English, not her. But, I’ve never struggled with English so how could I relate, and the truth is I couldn’t relate to many of the things she said, but I could relive the situation with the author by reading and gain experience for the next time I read, see, hear about being uncomfortable in English.