Author's Note
This assignment focuses on discrimination and racism of Chicano people, who live in the United States of America, done onto them by Americans and Mexicans. With outside research and utilizing resources provided in my environment, such as the Internet and translators and a small conducted interview with people from Hispanic background, I was able to fully understand and analyze the excerpt titled “How To Tame A Wild Tongue,” provided by Gloria Anzaldua. When writing, I planned on identifying my audience as the oppressed Chicano people who related to what Anzaldua experienced, and also the possibly unknowingly oppressive Americans and Mexicans. My writing process was sporadic until I could get an outline mapped out. With the outline, …show more content…
In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldua identifies her awareness of how others judge her because of how content she is with her identity and how she fights the stereotype threats placed on her by both cynical Mexicans and Americans. Embracing her true identity, Anzaldua uses her credibility of living in these situations to prescribe that Chicano people who are attacked because of their identity do the same and uses the emotions of the reader to appeal to the ignorance of the oppressors who scorn Chicano people like her to become aware of their actions. Anzaldua then goes on to describe the challenges Chicanos, or Mexicans, face; they are criticized and judged by both Latino people and Americans, making it very hard to cope with the situations they were placed in and the more likely to be guilty of adapting to a life that so many people are opposed …show more content…
Using these translations, I was easily able to visualize these events of discrimination in her life, much like Chicano people who had similar first hand experiences with these kinds of discrimination and could relate much more closely. It is with this reason that I find Anzaldua’s usage of different strategies to appeal very effective.
In conclusion, in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldua effectively utilizes various strategies of appeal to connect with readers and present her argument of identity and how there will be instances where outside forces, for example people not in your community, and even some inside, will negatively react to your choice of identity. Anzaldua writes directly to Chicano people and tells them to not be ashamed of their identity, however, an indirect audience would be the oppressors who were ignorant to the differences in their
This assignment focuses on discrimination and racism of Chicano people, who live in the United States of America, done onto them by Americans and Mexicans. With outside research and utilizing resources provided in my environment, such as the Internet and translators and a small conducted interview with people from Hispanic background, I was able to fully understand and analyze the excerpt titled “How To Tame A Wild Tongue,” provided by Gloria Anzaldua. When writing, I planned on identifying my audience as the oppressed Chicano people who related to what Anzaldua experienced, and also the possibly unknowingly oppressive Americans and Mexicans. My writing process was sporadic until I could get an outline mapped out. With the outline, …show more content…
In “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldua identifies her awareness of how others judge her because of how content she is with her identity and how she fights the stereotype threats placed on her by both cynical Mexicans and Americans. Embracing her true identity, Anzaldua uses her credibility of living in these situations to prescribe that Chicano people who are attacked because of their identity do the same and uses the emotions of the reader to appeal to the ignorance of the oppressors who scorn Chicano people like her to become aware of their actions. Anzaldua then goes on to describe the challenges Chicanos, or Mexicans, face; they are criticized and judged by both Latino people and Americans, making it very hard to cope with the situations they were placed in and the more likely to be guilty of adapting to a life that so many people are opposed …show more content…
Using these translations, I was easily able to visualize these events of discrimination in her life, much like Chicano people who had similar first hand experiences with these kinds of discrimination and could relate much more closely. It is with this reason that I find Anzaldua’s usage of different strategies to appeal very effective.
In conclusion, in “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” Gloria Anzaldua effectively utilizes various strategies of appeal to connect with readers and present her argument of identity and how there will be instances where outside forces, for example people not in your community, and even some inside, will negatively react to your choice of identity. Anzaldua writes directly to Chicano people and tells them to not be ashamed of their identity, however, an indirect audience would be the oppressors who were ignorant to the differences in their