Genres allows the writer to reflect values and investments. Chapter 5 of Anzaldua’s Borderlands La Frontera, How to Tame a Wild Tongue, includes many different genres. An important genre she repeatedly uses is personal experience. If personal experience was excluded from this chapter, her values and opinions would lack credibility and persuasiveness. Anzaldua writes about an issue that is important and personal to her: by removing this important genre, chapter 5 would not be a powerful chapter. Anzaldua is very passionate about her language being her identity. Throughout her life different people have been trying to oppress her of speaking English, Spanish, Spanglish, and many other forms of Spanish. When she states her opinion, she backs
