English III
Ms. Fordahl
2/18/2014
Exploring Borderlands
This past week we talked about and
learned about exploring borderlands.
We read a story and watched a PBS video again. The story was written by Gloria
Anzaldua. The name of the story was How to Tame a Wild Tongue. In the next
paragraphs I am going to talk about the story and how borderlands have to do
with the story and video.
The theme I am going to talk about throughout
the story and video is culture. Culture is what helps make borderlands.
Borderlands are formed by a strong dividing line of cultures. Each culture has
different languages usually, but some have very little to no change in their
language.
In the story How to Tame a Wild
Tongue, Gloria Anzaldua describes how the culture is different in the Americas
from where she lived before. In the story the girl was treated unequally
because of her language. She could speak English, but not much at all, it was
very broken. Her parents would always tell her to just keep quiet because they
didn’t want to be embarrassed of her broken language. So that’s why there is a
culture borderland around the Americas.
In the video from PBS there were
women and men from Spanish speaking countries and they are called Chicanas and Chicanos. The video talked
how there were conquistadors, people
that were the first too settle in Mexico, and how they were very important to
the culture and the language. The men and women talked about how it was nice to
come to a land that they weren’t criticized about their language. They also say
it wasn’t the easiest to move away from their homeland and to America.
So in conclusion, in the story How
to Tame a Wild Tongue it talks about cultural borderlands because of her native
speaking in America and how tough it was growing up. In the video they talk
about borderlands and culture change between Mexico and America. So both the
story and video have to deal with exploring borderlands.
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