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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How to tame a wild tongue‚ which was written in Spanish as well as English by Gloria‚ expressed her feeling that as a Mexican immigrant but being raised in the U.S. when she facing with culture and social differences. The followings are my rhetorical analysis which focus on her situation background‚ her purpose and claims. At the very beginning of the article‚ she used a metaphor to set up the overall emotion. “Wild tongues can’t be tamed‚ they can only be cut out.”In this sentence‚ ‘Wild tongues’
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In the excerpt from “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua‚ the author puts her frustrations to paper in the forms of the parallel structure. She uses them to show her personal experience with this abuse towards her culture and through the subtle metaphor of her tongue compared to a wild horse‚ a symbol of the Native American‚ and the attempt‚ but ultimate failure of the “breaking” of both cultures revealing her defiance towards this injustice simulation she faced. Anzaldua uses
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HOW TO TAME A WILD TONGUE The writer dialogue within relation to a dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her language. Gloria Anzaldua who is a Chicano talks about how Chicanas have problems expressing their feelings. Since they lack a native language‚ instead it is a product of several languages. And their language Chicano Spanish has incorporated bits and pieces of several versions of Spanish. The author speaks about people who are neither Spanish nor
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“My Perspective of a Wild Tongue” “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ by Gloria Anzaldua‚ is a very expressive story about a Mexican American women’s struggle to preserve her culture. Her main fight revolves around a struggle to keep a form of Spanish‚ called “Chicano Spanish”‚ a live. In the short story she says‚ " for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ or standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?"(page
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Natalie Gonzalez 3/14/2007 Gloria Anzaldua‚ author of the article " How to tame a Wild Tongue"‚ expresses very strong views on how she feels her native Chicano Spanish language needs to be preserved in order to maintain cultural unity when used as a private form of communication. Her statement‚ " for a people who cannot identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ nor standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?" suggests that despite the societal
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How to Tame a Wild Tongue 10/15/12 Differences are what define the world around us. Whether a subtle contrast of two colors or a comparison of two nations‚ our dissimilarities shape our identities. Many people find it difficult to accept the differences they have with other people. It is easy with similarities‚ because they are within our boundaries or areas in which we have experience. People have a tendency to shun things they do not understand‚ to oppress the unfamiliar. To be confronted with
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Katelyn McCoy English 1101 Summary/Response September 26‚ 2012 McCray “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” In the article‚ “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ Gloria Anzaldua focuses on the idea of losing an accent or native language to conform to the current environment. Anzaldua grew up in the United States but spoke mostly Spanish. The problem is that the language she spoke was Chicano Spanish‚ not true Spanish. She was living in an English speaking environment‚ but was not Anglo. She wasn’t living
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Language is more than just a means of communication; it is part of one’s culture‚ identity‚ and self-expression. In the essay “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” written by Gloria Anzaldua expresses the dilemma she faced about her own language and how she represents herself through her language. Anzaldua who is a Chicano talks about how Chicanas have problems expressing their feelings‚ since they lack a native language. Instead it is a product of several languages‚ and their language Chicano Spanish has
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Gloria Anzaldua‚ a Chicana who grew up in South Texas. The first chapter of her book‚ Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza is titled “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. She describes life as a young woman who is too Spanish for Americans and too American for Spanish. The second is Amy Tan‚ a daughter of immigrants who fled China in the 1940s. In her essay “Mother Tongue” she recalls
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