Blog number 2

I really wanted to write my second blog on Gloria Anzaldua's piece "Speaking in Tongues" because of how compelling I found her writing. I found it really interesting that she had some characteristics similar to Emily Bronte. Instead of encouraging women to write, she kind of called them out a bit. On page 319 she said "We cant do the white woman's homework for her"Part of me believes this is her bitter side talking, due to how she was talking about white woman having an advantage in the writing world earlier in her piece.

I found her childhood a bit shocking, as hard as it must of been growing up as a lesbian feminist, her family didn't really help much either. Her family "felt it was too bad I was dark like an Indian" page 315. Luckily this pushed her to rebel against their sexist restrictions. This act of courage reminded me of a quote she said later in her piece; "Fear acts like a magnet, it draws the demons out of the closet and into the ink in our pens" Who knows, maybe if she didn't have such a hard child hood from her family and teachers, it wouldn't of pushed her to work so hard in her life.

I really enjoyed how she ended her piece "Speaking in Tongues". She stated on page 322 that "Many have the gift of tongue but nothing to say". This really reminded me of our generation today, how so many people take writing for granted or claim "I am just not good at it" or "readings boring". Its sad in a way that so many of these woman writers were learning about risked their lives just to express themselves and we don't appreciate how much easier we have it today.