Additionally, the diversity of historical backgrounds provides Americans with an intrinsic understanding of experiences and hardships that embellish our present. The author speaks fluent English and Spanish giving her an advantage over others. Morales's poem "Child of the Americas" focuses on the author's bilingualism where it celebrates the point that in the Americas she can speak more than one language. She shows equal levels of attachment to both languages and what these mean to her on a personal and cultural level. An example of her love and mastery of the English language is in line 7, "I speak English with passion: it's the tongue of my consciousness."
Although I do agree with rehtors George Campbell and Augustine that eloquence and style are needed to move masses, I also believe that rhetoric needs to contain equal amounts of facts. I think that if letters are to be seen as rhetoric they should hold the same high standards that define “Good Rhetoric”. What particularly bothered me was that the words Gloria Anzaldua used to stir emotions. I believe she used stereotypes that are normally used by the “privileged” class. This can be understood when examining Anzaldua’s plea to 3rd World Women to write, no matter the circumstance.
Pink Flamingo Analysis Society has always been known to go with the status quo. People are always doing what everyone else is doing, and some try to do it better than others. Jennifer Price shows how this idea revolves specifically around Americans in her excerpt titled “The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History” with the way she uses certain literary devices. This excerpt shows how the author is sarcastic and knowledgeable, and through the syntax, diction, and tone, Jennifer Price reveals her ideas on United States Culture as they are now and how they were in the past; greedy. This piece of literature is shown to be satirical from the title, and first few sentences.
She pointed out that mother tongue could affect everyone one of us, just like how she is affecting her husband without noticing. Her husband is not aware of the change of English form and the ‘weirdness’ of this form of English that they used to communicate among their family and the kind of English that she grew up with. It may be misunderstood by others, but to Amy, this type of English is perfectly clear and natural because this is her mother tongue. Her mother tongue is not a barrier in her ability to learn this English language, besides, she consider her mother tongue to be vivid, direct and full of observation and imagery which helped her to shape her way of seeing and expressing things, and to look at this world in a different way. People may consider her mother tongue to be ‘broken’ or ‘fractured’, or in another way they consider them as ‘limited English’, where people tend to relate limited English and limited perception together.
The word bilingual in the title does not portray which two languages or cultures will be discussed; however, the word itself suggests that the ability of two languages is possible which as well can represent two cultures. From the beginning the authors show the importance of not relinquishing one’s culture and becoming multicultural. The word choices by Gina Valdes and Rhina Espaillat are essential in the insertion of the reader into the merger of two cultures. Both authors used bilingual diction throughout the poems; Spanish and English were the languages used because the Latino and American cultures are the ones being integrated. The Spanish diction in “Bilingual” is denoted with parenthesis.
It also can give a person a fresh eye for their own society and culture, and even improve their understanding of the mechanics of one's own language, all by comparison. Spanish has also been known as one of the most romantic languages, which could satisfy ones romantic needs and desires. Also, Spanish is the simplest Latin-originated language, making it the training wheels of all Latin languages. Everyone wants to be understood. It is hard coming to a foreign country, or visiting one, having very little exposure to country’s language.
Not only is this pull common with women, so is the desire to be loved by someone else. I think Rajaa taps into this universal desire very beautifully and honestly, especially through all the pitfalls of love the girls face. Her honesty causes the book to be unlike Hollywood movies and other novels about romance. In reality, love is not always sunshine and roses, and Rajaa expresses that through her characters causing a lot of sorrowful scenes within the book. I really enjoyed Rajaa’s way of being able to educate her audience on life and society in Saudi Arabia (even when it comes to simple things such as pop culture and fashion) without it interrupting the story.
He manages to incorporate English and Spanish with ease with his protagonist Robert Jordan. It is with this I will show just how important this bilingual diction was important to not only Hemingway but to Robert Jordan as well. In the following passage of his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway expresses a sensitivity to the suggestive value of words in themselves which I conceive to underlie his whole handling of language in the book. His American protagonist, Robert Jordan, thinks “And if . .
He realizes for the first time he can fully comprehend every word that comes out of her. Although his own reply was full of errors, I sensed a triumph on his part. I had a somewhat similar experience with a Spanish teacher at Laney Community College in Oakland. Mrs. Rosa my Spanish teacher was not as ludicrous and consistently rude like Sedaris’s teacher but she would say mean remarks like “You don’t know Spanish…! You don’t know nothing…!
Another example is that Celine also used some fillers during her speaking like this sentence,” No,yeah….. well, you know. I haven't...I haven't killed anyone lately.” In this situation was that Celine was trying to use humor to cover the truth that looking on bright colors was useless to her. Next are those questions and those can divide into two groups, one is opinion question, and another is description question. For opinion questions like, ”How’s your trip?”,” What do you think?”,” What do you think would be the first thing about me that would drive you mad?”,” So, how was Madrid?” and I think the most impressing description question was “Describe for me your first sexual feelings towards a person.” in this movie. As for disclaimer, it’s hard to find some after they both got familiar with each other because they would directly use “but”,”no” or directly questioned each other, but I find one while Celine was talking about the idea of Jessie’s episode, she said:”I can……I can see that 24 boring hour...sorry, i...i…”, here she used sorry as a disclaimer, and I also find out they would use “wait, wait” as a tool to interrupt or to repeat and question what she/he just said, like, “Your girlfriend?”Finally, as for listener expressions, there are really many of them in this movie.