Tongue

Various English Amy Tan is the author of “Mother Tongue” essay. Her essay provides real life stories about her mother and herself struggling in America. Her story is an amazing eye opener because it makes people realize that someone who cannot speak standard English is less intelligent, but after reading “Mother Tongue” this person will change his/her opinion about people who cannot speak English. In her essay, Tan explain about her mother’s broken tongue, she discusses how challenging it was…

Rhetorical Arrangement of "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan Amy Tan, in her narrative novel - "Mother Tongue", recounts her thoughts of her mother 's "broken English". Tan 's purpose is to explicitly express the influences on her life exerted by "Mother Tongue", in order to attract readers with similar feelings and experience. She employs delicate rhetorical arrangements such as classification order, narrative anecdotes, and comparison. These delicate rhetorical arrangements are effectively beneficial…

The text “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, by Gloria Anzaldúa is from her famous work “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. The New Mestiza is acclaimed to be her most outstanding work. In the text, she mentions her struggles with controlling her tongue. It is a struggle for Anzaldúa to control her tongue because she has been influenced by multiple dialects that have altered her own. The multiple imprints of dialects that she has learned has hindered not only her schoolwork, but also…

Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source?” and Gloria Anzaldúa in her essay, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” both discuss the implications of using language as a tool of oppression; however, in “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton reclaims the language used to put women down. These three texts…

Opus Immortalitati It is often said that knowledge is the pursuit of life, and wisdom is what one gains after it has been lived. This concept is something that authors and scholars have written about and experienced unanimously, and it happens ubiquitously with every single individual no matter what experiences they have dealt with in their lives. While it is universally true that people want to pass on all they have learned to others, their teachings and methods are all immensely different.…

very hard for people to undertsnad me. I often have to repeat myself two or more times and It indeed gets annoying for both me and the reader. Gloria Anzaldua is an author challenges her readers with similar issues in her writing “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. She mixes two languages together in her writing, creating a Spanglish read. As a result, her piece can be a very difficult read for the average monolingual reader. I often got frustrated at the fact that I didn 't understand everything she…

Tame a Wild Tongue,” Anzaldúa demonstrates how language and culture are crucial parts in conveying her identity. Anzaldúa uses her personal experiences to demonstrate how society has limited her speech due to her dissimilar nationality. Throughout her essay, Anzaldúa emphasizes how people have to conform in order to survive in society and to gain people’s acceptance. Anzaldúa introduces the story with her trip to the dentist. While at the dentist, Anzaldúa is forced to “control” her tongue;…

The essay ¨ Mother Tongue¨ by Amy Tan is an essay written in her opinion about language and about how we use it. If the essay were read and interpreted by people from Japan and the Netherlands the essay will be viewed differently because these people grew up with different cultures and customs. In Japan, Japanese people will be able to relate to Amy´s mother. The line “ the fact that people… did not take her seriously… pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her”…

The Essay Mother Tongue was written in 1990 by Amy Tan. This was written for people like her, who had trouble accepting the way their parent´s spoke. It was written to share an experience not many have and is about what she had to do because of her mother´s speech. These things can be known by inferred from the text and read the small bio before the reading. This text takes the form of an essay. this is apparent because it is written in a more formal fashion and is written in spaced paragraphs…

In the excerpt from Borderlands/ La Frontera, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldúa, conveys the message that language is an individual’s identity as she delves into the circumstances that Chicano Mexicans, who she identifies herself with, are experiencing. The author implements a number of personal experiences to provide a credible, rational, and emotional appeal. This along with the tropes and schemes, anaphora, polysyndeton, metaphor, simile, allegory, allusion, and erotema develop a…