Anzaldua Blog Response #2: The Anti- Essay

Anzaldua writes in a way were she uses a metaphor to start off her essay then gets into the essay explaining that metaphor she used in the beginning. By doing this in her writing she grabs the reader to keep on reading and has them wanting to read more to answer their question from the metaphor she created in the first paragraph. What makes her text an academic text is the problem of the Spanish language having many varieties of languages in its own part and why don’t we stick to that medieval Spanish? Since these issues are brought up, this engages the reader to join the conversation and submit their own point of views. What made the text anti-academic was the discussion about the Spanish language starting to change in her personal view than staying on the academic part of it. It’s different from a traditional essay because Anzaldua is trying to get on a personal level on the subject to have the reader connect with the subject more. By doing this Anzaldua grabs the reader to keep reading and really find out what she really is trying to say in the text. She does this type of writing because from the start she throws a curveball at them with a metaphor. Then once the reader finishes reading that first paragraph they have a drive to read the whole text so they can solve that metaphor and see how it connects to the rest of her text. “Pocho, cultural traitor, you’re ruining the Spanish language” this quote I believe shows us as a reader the purpose of writing this essay. Reason being is because it’ not that some of us Spanish speaking people intertwine our language with English but to create a language that fits our society as a group in a English society. This new language does not have to do with us watering down our Spanish with English but evolving it to another language that our kids will understand us due to the big divide between both cultures. We are just trying to keep some of that Spanish language we’re proud of but incorporate the language that we are forced to learn to succeed in life so that we still hold our roots but let them grow to what they are surrounded by in life.