maya
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Post by maya on Aug 31, 2022 21:00:48 GMT -5
When it comes to comparing the two stories "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" and "The Fourth of July", the two main characters have a lot in common. Anzaldúa has the sense that her history as well as her language is constantly trying to be wiped away from society as well as falsified to the country and world. She had felt extremely lost while being in the United States of America, always attempting to fit in and figure out a group that she belonged to. Both Audre and Anzaldúa are women of color as well as apart of minorities. Both girls want to feel proud of being in America, yet both feel as if they are heavily discriminated against as well as both of them feeling as if they sometimes don't belong where they are due to their surroundings. It is hard for both women in the sense of them to feel American, despite being differentiated amongst others in a country where they just want to be at same.
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sidd
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Post by sidd on Sept 2, 2022 21:45:44 GMT -5
When reviewing the stories written by Anzaldúas and Lorde it’s clear that they both feel American in some aspect with Anzaldúas feeling she is American within the language(s) she speaks and how that was influenced because she is American and a prominent language in America is English. However, with Lorde she feels as if she is an American because she was simply born in New York, considering her nationality to be American. However, with this comes a time when they have both struggled with their title of being an American, which Anzaldúas felt un- American when she was in an English class and she had felt her Chicano was under attack by the teacher as she had been told that it was not acceptable to speak Spanish in the class, in which after that she realized she was different from the average American and would in many cases be treated like such, even by her people, which is similar to Lorde because she viewed herself as an American until she grew to realize the true colors of the country she had been living in and how it would argue otherwise not only through white people but black, as well. She mentions her disliking of the holiday Fourth of July as it’s not a celebration for black people but a sign of the times that she knew followed and would be distorted.
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