Gloria Anzaldua's How To Tame A Wild Tongue

Social injustice is a problem that take continues everywhere you look, whether its in schools or the work place. It serves as a serious dilemma which is overlooked. In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, she tells the story of how people who speak Chicano Spanish receive these types of oppression in the United States. If you were to leave out her personal narration, it would be more difficult to see her testimony. Her personal accounts help place each reader in her footsteps. In any story, personal narration plays an important role; it allows readers to see the authors perspective and better understand the issue. Anzaldua describes the attacks she received while growing up coming from a Chicano Spanish background. She tells personal

Towards the middle of the chapter she has more of a claim approach. She feeds her personal background which helps to build tension and then makes claims that involves the own Spanish community, then continues to give background into Chicano Spanish and where it originated from. After she makes her final big claim of how the language is being “terrorized”. She tells how she always wondered why Chicana females would be suspicious of each other, and she finally figures it out. “To be close to another Chicana is like looking in the mirror. We are afraid of what we’ll see there. Low estimation of self.” Since they have always been told to stop using their language, it hurts their character. Anzaldua even explains if you really hurt her personally, talk bad about her language. Her language makes her who is she. “I am my language.” If you can’t take pride in your language, you can’t take pride in yourself. She makes a big emphasize on how one’s language plays a big role in themselves. If you take one’s language away, you leave them losing some of their honor they have for it. She also explains how there are other ways to internalize identification, such as music and the food and certain smells. She claims that being Mexican is a state of soul instead of mind. You can’t and try to take away someone’s culture, its always with

Anzaldua easily does this by the use of her claims and arguments along with her personal stories. When you see what an individual like herself has been through, you feel sorrow. She’s able to connect with readers and show that if you were in my footsteps, you would most likely do the same. She easily connects with readers who come from a similar background, and also makes it easier to draw the attention for the ones who don’t have a similar