A Wild Tongue By Gloria Anzaldua - 1779 Words

â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue† Critical Analysis When Anzaldua says â€Å"So, if you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language† she wants you to feel every aspect of what she is saying. In â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue† she persuades her readers to believe this and that she has went through hell to fight for what she believes in. â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue† is published in Borderlands/La Frontera, by Gloria Anzaldua and â€Å"the book talks about how she is concerned with many kinds of borders--between nations, cultures, classes, genders, and languages.† Anzaldua gives many examples of how she felt when being classified as a Chicana. Her thesis in this is that she is â€Å"arguing for the ways in which identity is intertwined with the way we speak†¦show more content†¦She gives the reader very vivid memories from her childhood and how being raised poor affects her identity as a person. She discusses how Mexicans identify themselves; since there are many different ways to identify culture, they make up several different cultures (Indian, Black, and Mexican). By the end she talks about the fight that Mexicans put up to stand up for their culture and their identity. Anzaldua persuades her audience of Chicanos by her examples of her credibility. She is told many times that she needs to be able to speak Spanish without an accent. This affected her when she was younger a lot. She was not able to speak Spanish at school without her teacher telling her â€Å"If you want to be American, speak American! If you don’t like it, go back to Mexico where you belong.† She also had to fight with her mother about this because she wanted Anzaldua to not have the accent. She would tell her â€Å"I want you to speak English. Pa’ hallar buen trabajo tienes que saber hablar el ingles bien. Que vale toda tu educacion si todavia hablas ingles con un accent.† This translated to â€Å"To find good work you must know how to speak English well. That is worth all your education if you still speak English with an accent.† Anzaldua explains how she was mortified of this because she spoke English like a Mexican. She explains that she had t o take two classes in order to get rid of her accents. She went on to become a teacher in 1971 and Chatman 3 she wasShow MoreRelatedNot A Wild Tongue By Gloria Anzaldua2223 Words   |  9 PagesAssimilate or retain identity After reading â€Å"How to Tame a wild Tongue† by Gloria Anzaldua, I can definitely feel the social and cultural difficulties immigrants experienced while being raised in the United State in a profound way. So it brings up a question I have as an immigrant for a long time: Would we get treated differently if we act the same way they act, speak the same kind of language they speak, eat the same type of food they eat? 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When Anzaldua says â€Å"So, if you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language† she wants you to feel every aspect of what she is saying. She is wanting you to know that she is standing up for her culture. In â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue† she persuades her readers to believe the way she feels and that she has gone through hell to fight for what she believes in. â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue† is published in Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), by Gloria Anzaldua and â€Å"the bookRead MoreHow A Wild Tongue By Gloria Anzaldua And How Soccer Explains The World : An Unlikely Theory Of Globalization1309 Words   |  6 PagesTitle Throughout the years many people have experienced where he or she does not fit in a certain type of group or society because they are not accepted through the rest of society. 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Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity – I amRead MoreThe Negative Impact of Bilangual Education1216 Words   |  5 Pagesin his book â€Å"Achievement of Desire†, addresses his struggles as a young boy, trying to adapt to a bilingual education and how that education alienated him from his uneducated Mexican parents. Additionally in the excerpts â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue,† Gloria Anzaldua, while she mainly focuses on the language of â€Å"Mexican† people in different aspects, also men tions her strife as a bilingual student. Although these two stories are different in many ways but they both reflect the negative impact of livingRead MoreAnzalduas Struggle with Language1502 Words   |  7 Pagesto Tame a Wild Tongue† Gloria Anzaldua, the author of â€Å"How to Tame a Wild Tongue,† expresses a very strong tie that she has to her native language. Anzaldua grew up in the United States, but spoke mostly Spanish. She did not speak the normal form of Spanish though; she spoke Chicano Spanish, a language very close to her heart. The text focuses on the idea of her losing her home accent, or tongue, to conform to the environment she is growing up in. From a very young age, Anzaldua knows that