1. The opening scene in the dentist chair connects to the overall message of the essay and its title because it's a metaphor to her life. The wild tongue is her culture and how strong it is to her personally through her views, teaching and lifestyle.
2. Anzalduas use of Spanish throughout her writing was absolutely perfect in getting her message across. Speaking Spanish may not be fully in her lifestyle now, but now and then it comes out without hesitation because it is her culture and was raised speaking both languages. It gets a message across in the sense that she is speaking for others that go through the struggle of having to hide their language.
3. Yes Academic English can be defined as standard Spanish and Chicano Spanish can be described as nonstandard because there are many variations of how people speak. There's standard and slang words people use but the slang is just the easier way of saying things in standard and still gets the message across. References can be made to one's identity on how one speaks or writes or interact with others because it can shows education level, where someone comes from and other identity factors.
4. There is a necessity of speaking and/or writing in Academic English as an identity because people base intelligence on how you present yourself and speak and write. There's a "proper" way to speak when speaking to someone with higher authority when, let's say, on a job interview. In order to make good impressions people tend to show off using very proper English.
5. The different types of English identities I know and use include being very proper when speaking to an adult, teacher or my employer while if I was speaking to my friends I would use the slang they would know and what they use while speaking to me. When I speak to my parents I use both depending on the topic and how much they understand.
6. I do not necessarily use a different language, identity or communication with my friends except the normal and occasional slang that can usually be translated by many people besides them.
7. When speaking to my friends I speak nonstandard English, meaning slang, because they understand it and when outside a classroom or any important situation like job interview we use it. When speaking to my mother I use both because we have the connection to use slang around each other but also in serious topics its standard English. And when speaking to my professor I use standard formal English.
8. The statement "I am my language" connects to a person's identity because your language is your culture it is what someone was raised with. Your language speaks for you and your people.
9. The introduction and conclusion connect because it starts off saying her tongue cannot be controlled and ends with "When other races have given up their tongue, we've kept ours." The connect at the fact that there was really no way to tame her tongue because her people are strong and stand and speak for what they believe.
10. Yes the language you speak can be part of your identity because as said before your language is part of your culture and how you speak it in unique to your culture and you.
11. Identity is extremely important to me because my identity is who I am and who I want to become. Everyone's identity is being judged with just one glance and it is important to have a strong understanding of yourself. Although Anzaldua is a bit hesitant about her language at some points in her life she understands that it is apart of her and that's her identity physically and mentally.
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