Personally, if it makes Gloria Anzaldua feels pride in herself for not have to translate text, if not translating text give her an “legitimate tongue”. She has that right as a person and she did use spanish words in her essay so she can tell the readers the tough times she had been through when she was forced to speak in only in English. The American society wants from Anzaldua to speak proper English, while the Mexican society also wants her to speak Spanish. The language that the author used is important. Anzaldúa remembers being punished because of speaking Spanish in her school.
Their family didn’t always follow the cultural rules that they are “suppose” to follow. She knew that’s what her mother and father believed, so that was what she believed. She didn’t believe in a certain type of culture. At the end of the essay, she leaned over and asked her children if they felt any ethnic or religious identity. They firmly said “None”.
When asked where am I from, they immediately assume that the first words to come out of my mouth will be, “Sorry, I no espeak English.”. Due to my not so light complexion and long brown hair, people think that the only thing I know how to do is flip tortillas and pray the rosary. But when I do reply to their question, I simply reply by saying I am Mexican, but born here in America. With Spanish being my first language and always being called by “Mija…” and being scolded with “Cabrona…”, I have learned many valuable lessons. Since my parents were both born in Mexico and moved here at the legal age of eighteen to experience a better life in the so called “Land of the Opportunity”.
As Guy Montag thinks about all that Clarisse stood for in her life, he realizes that the world cannot go on the way it is: with no value for life or nature. People didn’t care about starving countries, or deadly wars, or even real people. They were all blinded by an overly inoffensive atmosphere. Guy decides that he has to fix this, because Clarisse wasn’t like those people at all and she was the first person in years that he actually liked. He chooses to recruit the help of a retired professor in an attempt to open humanity’s eyes to the world around them, and all because of
Gloria Anzaldua, author of How to Tame a Wild Tongue, is a woman of Mexican decent that writes about the struggles of living in an American society where specific languages are looked upon as distasteful and are indirectly shunned. Anzaldua also expresses her emotion that is connected to the multiple languages she speaks and how they are identified in the different cultures she experiences. In How to Tame a Wild Tongue, Anzaldua lists eight separate "languages" that she speaks. Although there are so many of them, they all derive from English or Spanish; they are simply the two languages mixed together in multiple ways. Anzaldua writes that she speaks Standard English, Working class and slang English, Tex-Mex, Chicano Spanish, North Mexican dialect, Pachuco, Standard Mexican Spanish, and Standard Spanish, each one being quite different from the one before.
In the essay, Anzaldúa is very focused on the borders between culture, language, nations and classes, and how the way we speak is intertwined with our identity. She is concerned with the idea of losing one’s identity through conforming to the current dominant culture and language of the nation. She addresses the issue of speaking Chicano Spanish versus speaking a standard form of the Spanish language, while she also had to learn English in order to comply with English-speaking
Antigone’s pride came from her respect for her family and honoring the gods and their divine law, while Creon’s pride was an arrogant trait. Tiresias, the blind prophet claims Creon will lose his family for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied. Creon later realizes his mistaken pride. For example, “Fate has brought all of my pride to a thought of dust (Creon, Exodus).” This quote reveals that Tiresias’ prophecy or fate had portrayed Creon’s downfall, yet still filled with pride, refused to admit to his wrong doing. After Creon’s family’s deaths, Creon’s pride crumbles as he realizes he was wrong in his actions.
Many believe that patriotism is an act of duty without emotion ,but I believe that it is a beautiful desire that should blossom freely in one ,that can lead a person to strive for a better nation. Remarque’s All Quiet In The Western Front focuses on the life of Paul Baumer ,and his fellow teenage comrades who were ridiculed ,and forced by their teacher to join the army ,but because they weren't there for the right reasons they end up despising it,and questioning its purpose. Remaque truly plants the seed of uncertainty into the minds of his characters as they come to realize that their idea of patriotism is only a tool used by men with political power in order to control civilians. On a recent excursion to the
Although Dee was able to obtain a college education, it was in fact her who is ignorant to her own heritage not Mama and Maggie. Dee did not know the family history behind the items made be her ancestors while Mama and Maggie did. By incorporating heritage in to their daily lives Mama and Maggie stay in touch with their heritage while Dee has adapted to a new “modern” way of life losing touch with her own heritage. Family heritage should be practiced in everyday use and not hung on a wall merely displayed as decoration of ones
Mr Birling is a married man who is very important and confident who likes to lecture his children. Mr Birling is the owner of a successful factory. He realises that when his daughter gets married to Gerald it is going to do a lot of good to his business. He does not pay his employees very much and will refuse to pay them anymore. Mr Birling is a very selfish man who ‘has to make his way’ and doesn’t think of anyone but himself and his family; he thinks the community is stupid.