How to tame a wild tounge question

Jamyl Bey

September 3, 2014     

English 1100_37

How to Tame a Wild Tongue

           

1)      When she is at the dentist and he is trying to work on her teeth, and he can’t cause her tongue is in the way.  And the author thinks how do you train a tongue?  This scene is important because it shows you can’t tame a wild tongue the only way to do it is to cut it out.

2)      Anzaldua’s use of Spanish throughout her writing does make sense cause that it is her native language.  Her purpose is show how people tried to get her to stop speaking Spanish saying you live in America speak English.

3)      Yes academic English be defined as Spanish standard because if you live in a place where English is the main language you learn it same as if it was opposite.  Chicano Spanish is a nonstandard cause in a way it is made up version of Spanish. 

4)      The identity of writing and speaking in academic English comes from being taught a certain way in school of this is the proper way talk and this how you write.

5)      The different types of Spanish that Anzaldua list are standard Spanish, standard Mexican Spanish, north Mexican Spanish dialect, Chicano Spanish( Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California all have different variations).

6)      My friends and I sometimes have a code that we talk in that only we understand and it is hard to explain.  I am a man of many different identities all known by different people. 

7)      The way I talk when I’m with my friends is completely different then how I talk to my parents, professor or in a professional setting.  With my friends I’ll use slang cause I am not trying to be proper.  But with my parents, professor and in professional setting I use a more proper way of talking and don’t curse.

8)      “I am my language” means that the way a person talks and the language the speak is apart of what makes them the person they are.

9)      The intro and conclusion connect cause the intro says that you can’t tame a wild tongue or change the way a person talks its impossible. The conclusion states although other races have given up on their language and conformed they have not and they will continue to keep their language around. 

10)   Yes the language you speak is part of your identity it represents where you come from, your background, your heritage and culture

11) Identity is important to me because it is mine it’s what separates me from everyone else.  Anzaldua believes it is important, that is why she continues to speak Spanish throughout here story.