Audience

This documentary and text work on language, culture, and identity by discussing experiences and they got through their own hardships and still came out as themselves. Gloria uses this text to tell minorites the experiences she’s had and to always stay true to your own identity and to your culture. This text is also used to tell the dominant cultures what she had to go through and to provoke change for the future. The intended audience is important to this text because of the way she explains how hard it was for the oppressors to reject her language and subdue it. This also shows the other spanish chicanos how she got through this and kept her own identity. I had never really thought about how people treated others who didn’t speak the same language. I always thought that others would try to connect in a positive way. Bringing in the documentary, the beginning of the job at Columbia House was easy and fun. The job began to be more difficult to deal with when his manager quit and he had to take on a larger work load. While taking on this new responsibility, he felt a divide between him and his coworkers when upper management took a liking to him and his work. To battle the divide he talked through the issues and felt as though the weight was lifted, especially when he had another person to take on half the work with him. By working through the problems and listening to his coworkers they had a better relationship and the tension dissappered. He stayed true to himself and videoed everything in the process which was very interesting to watch. I felt that the documentary brought the struggles into a situation that I could more easily understand. These two stories are not just for the people involved or the people making decsions, they are also for students learning how to navigate through new territory and to see the other side of what’s going on.