Essay 5

Cristina Teresa-Guillermo

Professor Curtis-Cummins

English Composition

14 December 2017

Personal and Social Change

Many people go through a personal change due to society because they make them feel different and should change in order to “fit in”. This is what happened to Gloria Anzaldua when she was trying to find herself even when her own family had strict guidelines as well as Marjane Satrapi.

In Borderlands and in Mother Tongue, something that was similar between the two was language. Anzaldua talks about the barrier between how language is seen with chicanos adapting to their own type of spanish and how they created this and were also seen different. Amy Tan on the other hand has different types of ways she speaks depending on who she is talking to. Tan is similar to Anzaldua because they both have their own different language in which many people can connect to.

Anzaldua and Satrapi in their book talk about their own change and throughout their book you see how they have changed for themselves. Even though Anzaldua had some strict rules on how she had to be in her family, she still went out to figure out who she really was and stay true to herself and not for others. Satrapi also had to find herself was knew she was different and when she left her home country to a safer place, she was also doing different things and was finding out who she really was.

Having a personal change is not a bad thing to have to find yourself to find your true self and who you really are because of how society says you have to be or how others tell you you have to be.

Works Cited

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands: La Frontera. 3rd ed., Aunt Lute Books, 2007.

Satrapi, Marjane. “Skiing.” Persepolis, 2000, pp. 267–275.

Satrapi, Marjane. “The Vegetable.” Persepolis, 2000, pp. 189–197.

Tan, Amy. Mother Tongue.