Rhetorical Analysis Of How To Tame A Wild Tongue

How to tame a wild tongue, which was written in Spanish as well as English by Gloria, expressed her feeling that as a Mexican immigrant but being raised in the U.S. when she facing with culture and social differences. The followings are my rhetorical analysis which focus on her situation background, her purpose and claims. At the very beginning of the article, she used a metaphor to set up the overall emotion. “Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out.”In this sentence, ‘Wild tongues’ refer to her Mexican accent and how much she love to her culture, as well as a strong emotion, which makes me feel ‘uncontrollable’, especially for the word ‘Wild’, I can feel a call for freedom. And ‘ Cut out’ refers to disappear, which means if someone wants her to forget her accent and language culture, the only way to do that is make her disappear,which is a high level of self- esteem. So from this short sentence, we know the whole article’s emotion is strong, painful even disgruntled. Let’s talk about her situation background.
What leaves the deepest impression on me is the sentence “ Wild tongues can’t be tamed, they can only be cut out”, this sentence appears for several times in this article, I think this sentence also can summarize the whole article in a metaphor way, this sentence shows her attitude, her brave to against what she don’t want. “ If you want to really hurt me, talk badly about my language.”, from this sentence, we can know she thinks her language is really important for her, and then she said my favourite words, “ I am my language.”, she impress herself as her language because in her mind, her language is her culture and soul, is her identity, she combines her body and the language together into a perfect her, language is her calling card. She claims to the whole world that she is disgruntled that she need to forget and change her language, she is calling for real freedom and fair. How brave she