Ravinder Kaur
Professor Ms. Barksdale-Shaw
English 111 College Composition I
November 2, 2015
Freedom of Speech “Apne man ke bhavo aur vicharo ko parakat karna abhykiwat kahlata Hai”. Do you find it difficult to read the first sentence? Read it again you might understand a word or so. I bet, you won`t be able to guess what it means. Let me tell you, it means, “Freedom without the language can’t be Freedom. After spending many years in India, I moved to an environment that was totally different from the one I came from. Its been 5 years now but the one thing I’m still fighting on an everyday basis is Language. Nobody else understands the frustration you go through speaking and understanding a different language. Language identifies …show more content…
“How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, is a short essay written by her. In this particular essay her main point that she was trying to get across was that she is who she is as a person because of her language. Throughout her essay she said that her language is her identity, but she is torment for speaking Chicano, by Whites, Hispanics and people of her own culture. She mentioned that how she has picked up many different languages over the years. From a very young age, many people told her that her language was wrong, but she did not really care about what other said to her. It was her fundamental right to speak whatever language she wanted to speak. She remains faithful to her language and her own …show more content…
I come from India, where people speak 780 different languages. I speak 3 out of 780 languages. Hindi, Punjabi and Haryanvi. Punjabi is my mothers tongue and other two I picked up from school. When I moved to the United States, I learned English. I only speak English at school but at home my family talks in our our native language. It is very easy to speak our native language as well as it helps us to stick to our roots by speaking our language. Gloria Anzaldua blend bits of Spanish into her work because this shows the reader how important her language is to her. Her quote “wild tongues can’t be tamed; they can only be cut out” (Cohen 34). It indicates her Chicano heritage, tradition and languages is in her. She will remain faithful to her language until the day she dies or until the day she has to cut her tongue out. It is her identity and her self-esteem, and if it is taken away from her, she feels that she is
Professor Ms. Barksdale-Shaw
English 111 College Composition I
November 2, 2015
Freedom of Speech “Apne man ke bhavo aur vicharo ko parakat karna abhykiwat kahlata Hai”. Do you find it difficult to read the first sentence? Read it again you might understand a word or so. I bet, you won`t be able to guess what it means. Let me tell you, it means, “Freedom without the language can’t be Freedom. After spending many years in India, I moved to an environment that was totally different from the one I came from. Its been 5 years now but the one thing I’m still fighting on an everyday basis is Language. Nobody else understands the frustration you go through speaking and understanding a different language. Language identifies …show more content…
“How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, is a short essay written by her. In this particular essay her main point that she was trying to get across was that she is who she is as a person because of her language. Throughout her essay she said that her language is her identity, but she is torment for speaking Chicano, by Whites, Hispanics and people of her own culture. She mentioned that how she has picked up many different languages over the years. From a very young age, many people told her that her language was wrong, but she did not really care about what other said to her. It was her fundamental right to speak whatever language she wanted to speak. She remains faithful to her language and her own …show more content…
I come from India, where people speak 780 different languages. I speak 3 out of 780 languages. Hindi, Punjabi and Haryanvi. Punjabi is my mothers tongue and other two I picked up from school. When I moved to the United States, I learned English. I only speak English at school but at home my family talks in our our native language. It is very easy to speak our native language as well as it helps us to stick to our roots by speaking our language. Gloria Anzaldua blend bits of Spanish into her work because this shows the reader how important her language is to her. Her quote “wild tongues can’t be tamed; they can only be cut out” (Cohen 34). It indicates her Chicano heritage, tradition and languages is in her. She will remain faithful to her language until the day she dies or until the day she has to cut her tongue out. It is her identity and her self-esteem, and if it is taken away from her, she feels that she is