Anzaldua #2

Anzaldua structure for this essay is different from the other essay we have read because she begins her essay with a metaphor where she is getting the reader to think what this metaphor have to do with the essay. Then she brings in her introduction. Another difference of how she writes is that her writing is in both the English and Spanish language. This text makes it somewhat an academic and anti-academic essay. The way it’s an academic essay because it is composed of an introduction, body, conclusion, and at the end it show footnotes where it tells us that she did some research. This writing makes it an “anti-academic essay because she uses her opinions to what she is writing as to an academic essay uses other writers response, examples, and claims. I feel that Anzaldua writes her essay this way because she wants to give the reader a more clear aspect but at the same time make it difficult for others (non Spanish) to understand what she is saying. She is trying to get the reader to understand that different culture with more than on dialect should not be treated differently. I chosen “A language which they connect their identity to, one capable of communicating the realities and values true to themselves-a language with terms that are neither eespanol ni ingles, but both.” (10)