Writes: "'We will have to do something about your tongue'... And I think about how to tame a wild tongue, to train it to be calm, like do you harness him and saddle him? How do you make him 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 job difficult. In this example, the language functions as a double meaning for both the body part and one's native language, or natively spoken language. This is how the struggles the dentist has with the tongue become a metaphor for the struggles he experiences due to his wild tongue, as in native language rather than body part, in Texas. The ethos in 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 one's native language. The emotion emerges mainly from Anzaldúa's analysis of the situation, in which he uses harsh language with strong negative connotations. By accompanying the choice of words with the analysis of the situation, the reader understands the emotion and empathizes