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TAMING A WILD TONGUE
Gloria Anzaldua's title "How to Tame a Wild Tongue", depending on which angle it is looked at, could be seen as a rhetoric question in the sense that the "tongue" and or whatever it stands to signify cannot be tamed. In this case it metaphorically represents her native language-Spanish or Chicano Spanish-to be precise. On the other hand, the title could be taken as a statement of ridicule to show the futility or near futility of trying to force a change of language or pattern of speech on an immigrant or colonized people. She loved speaking Spanish and never made any pretenses towards changing her speech pattern as she "remembers being sent to the corner of the classroom "for talking back" to the Anglo teacher when all I was trying to do was tell her how to pronounce my name. "If you want to be American, speak ‘American.' If you don't like it, go back to Mexico where you belong."(77).
In this essay, Gloria is showing defiance and to some extent, the......

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