How to tame Gloria Anazulda's "How to tame a wild tongue" Reading Gloria Anazulda's "How to tame a wild tongue" was like playing a jigsaw puzzle. The ideas were all scattered aimlessly throughout the entire essay. It was up to the reader to find them and piece them together into a powerful and insightful essay. Her essay was filled with jargons, foreign words and strange organizations. It was very difficult to comprehend and follow at first. However, I then realize that it would take an unconventional mean of reading to comprehend this unconventional text. " Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel " said Robert Layden. If this was true, my life is no more than just a tragic play; another Romeo and Juliet. I tend to absorb all emotions and analyze it with my heart, not my mind. Similarly, I read the same way. During a course of reading, I tend to be oblivious to narrative and drawn to emotionally-pack-phrases or words. These phrases triggered in me emotions of my own about the reading. Using these emotions, I then analyze my reading. This was the same way I approached "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" by Gloria Anazulda. As I read her essay, I could feel the anger and injustice she felt for her people. Being a minority myself, I was sympathetic to her point of view yet embarrassed because I am a full-flesh Vietnamese, yet I cannot proficiently speak, read, or write my own language. In her writing, she made numerous claims that language is definitive of culture. " Ethnic identity is twin skin to linguistic identity- I am my language." To her I lacked culture. As I "feel" my way through her essay, I quickly became confused of the sudden changes in topic and emotions. I was baffled by the incessant usage of Spanish words and was distracted by her unconventional organization. She vacillated between arguments. The way I went about reading these confusing paragraphs was to filter out all the narrative from commentaries.
