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Gloria Anzaldua es un chicano muy orgullosa.(nice touch with the spanish term) In her short narrative “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” Gloria is able to put herself out as a proud, intelligent, and confident women of ethinicity. She portrays herself and tells her story of her culture, and where she comes from. She shares her identity as a woman, as a Chicano, as a person of the world.(very good introduction)

Gloria Anzaldua is a respectably stubborn woman. She begins her story of the quest to retain her identity as a Chicano woman with a story that perfectly sums up her identity as this Chicano woman of pride.glorias claim “My tongue keeps pushing out the wads of cotton, using back the drills, the long thin needles. “I’ve never seen anything as strong or as stubborn,” he says. And I think, how do you tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how do you bridal and saddle it?” The writer uses this story from her life, not only to introduce herself to the audience, but also to use her tongue as a metaphor of her personal attitude and struggle with what has become a huge topic in her life of her identity as a Chicano.(this is a good way to argue what gloria is presenting) Anzaluua’s character pours out of this quote. Not only is her voice one of clever metaphors, but also it shows herself as a strong and infallible figure, using the dentist as an example of her unwavering disposition. The audience is able to get a delicious bite out of Gloria’s character right from the beginning of this quote, and shows her audience that they had better listen to her.(this is true,you should make this highlight, gloria ia a demanding woman) She shows conviction in her tone, and her words. She is able to show her audience of Mexicans, Americans, and Latinas that she is to be listened to and thought about.theme Finally the quote acts as an introduction to what the entire rest of the essay is going to be about with her title giving quote “How to tame a wile tongue” as to her struggle to keep to her culture through the survival of her language.

Anzaldua is extremely assertive in her voice as a Chicano woman and thinks nothing of continually reassuring the reader of it. She is eloquent in her assertion of her self “So if you really want to hurt me, talk bad about my language. Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity- I am my language. Until I can take pride in my language, I can not take pride in myself.”this is glorias cause This is a bold statement coming from that of a women who has undoubtedly struggled with many issues of injustice being both a women, immigrant, and racial minority growing up in the United States. Gloria shows here her desperate love for the language she is trying to protect from the fate that many others of the world’s languages have succumbed to.nice theme She so closely relates her own identity to that of her native language, that she equates her own pride with that of the wilted pride of the Chicano language.(could her pride maybe get the best of her?) To the reader this is a strong parallel, and the reader is made to feel for the woman’s passion. She grasps her audience with her brutal honesty, and tells her story so to relate with a nation that is completely compromised with immigrates, as America is the great melting pot. The is able to perfectly articulate how she feels about her language, and not only does it sound the important of her views that without language, she has no identity,her claim but at the same time is able to discredit all who have talked bad about the mutt language.(yes she makes you feel for he struggle, very true)

The reason this essay is so successful in its delivery and message is because she is concise and positive of her subject. Although she may appeal to her character and audience in many parts of her essay, she is consistent on her subject, and does not leave the topic once to rant just to appeal to people.read well She is able to parallel both herself and the audience with the topic so she does not wavier from her subject.(she is so corageous) Gloria wants her own racial identity. Even her writing seeps with the language of her racial identity “We say nosotros los mexicanos (by mexicanos we do not mean citizens of Mexico; we do not mean a national identity, but a racial one. We distinguish between mexicanos del otro lado and mexicanos de este lado.” This passage seeps with meaning, and really encompasses the main point of her essay. She is sick of being identified as something she is not, as well as having other people look down upon her own racial identity.good guote(golden subject analysis)

Along with this feeling of an absence of others acknowledging their existence as a race, there is also a feeling of unease weaven throughout the essay due to the fact that they are treated as lesser citizens just for their lack of a true racial identity.(ethos) “Chicanos and other people of color struggel economically for not acculturating. This voluntary (yet forced) alienation makes for psychological conflict, a kind of dual identity- we don’t identify with the Anglo-American cultural values and we don’t totally identify with the Mexican Cultural values.” what do you think about glorias argument hereThis quote exemplifies what exactly the point Gloria is trying to make with this essay, and how the judging that people impose on the Chicanos and other minorities is hurtful not only emotional but economically. She shows that people need to accept these cultures because they exist, and are continuously discriminated against. This quote can sum up what she was trying to say on the subject of her struggling language. (good analysis Brian, you are a text wrestler)

Brian, you identified the writer, audience, and subject extremely well in this paper. You even gave me good ideas to focus on when i write my paper. I noticed that you seem to be backing this woman up very much, Gloria. The way she feels is "just like her opinion man" -TBL. Do you really think language is that damn important. I know racism is an evil thing, but agreeing to speak a language in a society that has spoken it since its birth, is not that hard to do. This lady knows english, so why can't She just speak it and stop being so angry. If anyhting I would say put in you personal opppinion some more in the essay.

--Thebriandonnelly 00:29, 24 October 2006 (EDT)