Gloria Anzaldua and Ralph Ellison

Anzaldua talks about her cultures identity problems in a brooder scale then Ellison. While Ellison incorporates personal experiences, Anzaldua talks about her people in a more general way. Anzaldua examines her culture’s crisis in many different facets. “Entering the Serpent”, is more directed towards problems of spirituality and the role of female. While, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, is directed more at Chicano’s present day struggles with their own identity. In “Entering …

…past. The essay showed how minorities cultures need to be very careful with their identities, because there will always be a desire to match what is considered normal. Both of these authors did not go against the majority groups but showed that you need to resist them to a degree. Every person must find their own identity based upon who they are in the present, but they need to remember and use their past also.