Hearing voices linda hogan

THE ASSIGNMENT IS TO WRITE A ONE well DEVELOPED PARAGRAPH REPLY TO EACH INDIVIDUAL’SREADER RESPONSE WRITTEN BY FOUR PEOPLE so total of four paragraph reply for this assignment is due . THE INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO WRITE A REPLAY TO A READER RESPONSE IS ALSO POSTED BELOW
A good reply will address questions posed, bring in support from the sample essay, and ask additional questions/seek additional comments from classmates. Alternatively, you can take an idea from the response you are replying to and develop this idea further, using your own experiences and observations or using illustrations from the text. Replies, too, should be carefully edited.

English 101

Professor Isaiah Ayafor

Linguistic Terrorism

1, Glroia Anzaldua’s “Linguistic Terrorism” depicts the struggle of maintaining a language as a means to keep a language. She brings to light how the dominant culture in the US has transformed v inadvertently against each other. Continuously, at a young age they are told the language they speak is for the poor people and is wrong. Overtime they take this to heart and their subconscious whether they realize it or not. She felt that if a Chicana or Latina looked down upon the language she speaks, then she also looks down upon her as a whole person. It seems as if different Spanish speakers lash out at each other trying to decipher or prove who is considered a legitimate Chicana. In the end, she feels as if this is distracting them from the fact their language (every variant of it) is beginning to be taken over by the general society as students in schools seem to be taught French more often than Spanish. The more this continues, the more Spanish speakers will find themselves needing to accommodate to English speakers as opposed to the other way around. She reiterates this concept feel like her tongue is not recognized or cared about. It doesn’t matter if people are being negative towards the language she speaks or her ethnicity because it is intertwined meaning you are virtually looking down upon her.