In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ Gloria Anzaldua shares her feelings of social and cultural difficulties that Mexicans face living in the United States and In “Se Habla Espanol” Tanya Maria Barrientos tells of being Latina who doesn’t speak Spanish. “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ Anzaldua describes her growing up in two different cultures. One thing she was expected was to speak perfect and adhere to the English Language. Anzaldua describes‚ “Being Mexican is a state of soul not one of mind.” This
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Gloria Anzaldua (“How To Tame a Wild Tongue”) and Richard Rodriguez (“Aria”) have written powerful‚ painful‚ and very personal stories about their attempts to fit into American society while being taught a language that is not of their ancestors. There are significant differences in the tone of the each reading and the feelings evoked. The methods used by each writer to describe specific points (Anzaldua‚ with force and anger; Rodriguez‚ with a resigned acceptance that only thinly veils his sadness
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In paragraphs 27 through 34 of Gloria Anzaldua’s essay "How to Tame a Wild Tongue"; she subtly conveys her own disgust at the invariable destruction of her Chicano culture by using the rhetorical strategies of organized syntax‚ narrative flashbacks‚ and the incorporation of her "native tongue". Between paragraphs 27 and 30‚ the syntax conveys Anzaldua’s deep emotions about her lingual identity using mostly balanced and declarative sentences. The perfect balanced in noticed in excerpts such as "Until
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heart and spirit of people who speak it. Languages explain the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication. Everyone has a language that they convey and pursue in everyday activities. Gloria Anzaldua‚ author of “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ is a Mexican American woman who takes great pride in her culture‚ but struggles to keep the form of Spanish called‚ “Chicano Spanish” alive. Born and raised in South Texas‚ Anzaldua will always have Mexican culture in her blood‚ but living
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Throughout my time in school I have always loved learning about history and oppression‚ which might explain why I plan on majoring in history and sociology. Understanding how people before my time lived and made things work without having nearly as many resources as I do is extremely engaging. Then analyzing that information further by trying to understand what people’s roles were and why is as equally captivating. However‚ it was not nearly as fascinating when I discovered both these subjects have
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shapes our identities. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldúa and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ both have similar subject as they both discussed how different forms of the same language are recognized in society. They emphasize the fact that a person can unconsciously develop different ideas through a language and categorizes an individual by the way they speak. How can identity be molded by language? Language is part of one’s identity. Both articles reflect how the language an individual
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In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ Gloria Anzaldua discussed the social and cultural difficulties Mexican immigrants go through when being raise in the USA. In addition‚ through her anecdotes she shows the strong relationship between language and identity‚ thanks these she also explains how one’s language must be preserved and celebrated. In the excerpt from “Movimientos de Rebeldía y las Culturas que Traicionan” Anzaldua exposes how culture aims to impose who we should be. In both pieces Gloria Anzaldua
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue (Rough Draft) Gloria Anzaldua is a Mexican woman who faced troubles growing up because she spoke Chicano and had trouble learning English bdue to her native tongue. She faced quandaries as a child because she had trouble grasping English and spoke with a Hispanic accent. She explains that “At Pan American University‚ I and all Chicano students were required to take two speech classes. Their purpose: to get rid of our accents. Attacks on one’s form of expression
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In response to “How to Tame a Wild Tongue‚” by Gloria Anzaldua‚ she describes her childhood along with the struggles of adjusting to the many different types of languages that her culture provides. She begins her experiences with a dentist appointment she had as a child and how the doctor was struggling to control her tongue while he cleaned her roots. That experience made her curious as to how one actually tames a wild tongue. Growing up in the American public school system‚ she would often be
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C4C Aaron Joya English 111 Maj Black 6 February 2015 Word Count: 401 Rhetorical Analysis of “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Being proud of one’s culture and language is often times lost when immigrating to a new country. Although criticized and attacked for her culture‚ Gloria Anzaldua describes in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” that she refuses to let others force her to reject her culture for the sake of belonging and informs Americans and Latinos attempting to suppress Chicano culture specifically that
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