poems “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan” and “Search for my Tongue” Culture is the way you live your life‚ the way you exist‚ the way you survive. It is the area that you live in‚ the cuisine that you consume‚ the clothes that you dress in‚ the dialect that you dictate‚ the way you commemorate special occasions and the way you worship and believe in a religion. The poems “Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan” and “Search for my Tongue” show how being part of two very different cultures can be
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from wrong. Two authors from different ethnic backgrounds show how language affects them personally and the ones around them. Kingston‚ a Chinese author‚ writes about stories based on the things she heard from her mother and
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Famed novelists and extraordinary writers Richard Rodriguez‚ Maxine Hong Kingston‚ and Frederick Douglass are some of the few who were victims of being silenced by fellow students‚ teachers‚ and authority. Yet‚ they found a way to break past the prison bars placed around them by society’s norm by finding themselves through education and a little strong will. Robert Rodriguez was once a young boy who felt like one with his native tongue: Spanish. He describes his household language as
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Rodriguez’s‚ "Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood" we see how the author struggles to find his public identity and in Gloria Anzaldúa’s‚ " How to Tame a Wild Tongue" we see how the writer shows that a person should not be viewed any less of because of the language they speak. In the end‚ a bilingual person often loses part of their identity when coming to a new country because they are slowly losing their form of communication Often the language you speak can bring people together. Rodriguez‚ in his
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For example‚ in the essay “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan‚ point out that her mother didn’t speak perfect English‚ so people treat her differently. People in department stores‚ at banks‚ and at restaurants did not take her seriously‚ did not give her good service‚ pretended not to understand
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immigrate to America and don’t know English yet or are struggling to speak it especially in public. In Richard Rodriguez “aria memoir of a bilingual childhood” Richard struggles to maintain who he is dealing with cultural identity with his Spanish language the only way to communicate with his parents now having to give it up however in Anzadua’s “how to tame a wild tongue” unlike Rodriguez she is pressured to lose her heritage by society but instead makes her stronger with it. In Richards’s article
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Easley‚ Kelli Assignment 5 kellieasley@gmail.com[->0] English 1 America: Land of Change America the Promise land‚ America the Melting Pot‚ America the land of the free; America was built around the idea of providing a place for freedom from tyranny‚ freedom from oppression‚ freedom to expand and explore and prosper. It was first colonized by people not of this land and so began a pattern in human history‚ a pattern that has sparked a wide and controversial debate around the concept of immigration
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Richard Rodriguez and Amy Tan are two bilingual writers. Rodriguez comes from a Latin background where both his parents speak Spanish. Tan is a child of Chinese parents. Though they share some of the same situations; each has a different way of portraying it. This gives the readers two different aspects of being bilingual. Rodriguez told his story in Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood. Tan told hers in Mother Tongue. In spite of the fact that they both wrote about their experiences of being
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As a bilingual speaker‚ Rodriguez wrote Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood to disapprove “bilingual education.” Narrating about his childhood living as a bilingual child in the states‚ he claims his points. For the successful deliverance of his message‚ he uses several writing styles—metaphor‚ parenthesis‚ and anaphora—throughout his essay. In the first part of his memoir‚ Rodriguez refers himself as a listening child who carefully hears the very different sounds of Spanish and English. Since
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In the Woman Warrior‚ Kingston develops a motif throughout the story about silence and voice; however‚ in the woman’s culture they are typically silenced and do not have a voice proving the Chinese society and culture is unfair and cruel. During the novel Kingston regularly brings up the concept of silence and lack of voice. For example‚ Kingston relays how when she is a young girl it is hard for her to voice her opinion‚ and she spends a vast amount of time sitting in silence. The author fails
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