Analysis Of How To Tame A Wild Tongue

In the excerpt from “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” by Gloria Anzaldua, the author puts her frustrations to paper in the forms of the parallel structure. She uses them to show her personal experience with this abuse towards her culture and through the subtle metaphor of her tongue compared to a wild horse, a symbol of the Native American, and the attempt, but ultimate failure of the “breaking” of both cultures revealing her defiance towards this injustice simulation she faced. Anzaldua uses metaphor in paragraph 2 she states “And I think, how do you tame a wild tongue, train to be quiet, how do you bridle and saddle it? How do you make it lie down?” In this quote, the author is describing the tongue as some wild animal, which she does