She writes: “We're going to have to do something about your tongue”… And I think how to tame a wild tongue, train it to be quiet, how to bridle it and saddle it? How do you get him to lie down? This example includes Anzaldúa at the dentist and the dentist attempting to work on her mouth, but her tongue interferes with the procedure and makes the doctor's work difficult. In this example, language functions as a double entender for both the body part and the person's native language, or the language they speak natively. This is how the struggles the dentist has with her tongue become a metaphor for the struggles she experiences because of her wild tongue, as in the native tongue rather than the body part, in Texas. The ethos of this passage is encompassed in the personal experience aspect of the passage and the pathos is due to the descriptive nature of the violent actions used to take away his native language. The emotion mainly comes out in Anzaldúa's analysis of the situation, where she uses harsh language with strong negative connotations. By accompanying his choice of words with his analysis of the situation, the reader understands the emotion and sympathizes with