The reading I read written by Anzaluda changed my views on the audience a bit. It changed my views that you can actually write almost as if you are conversing with your reader. The way she writes, she asks questions, tells you to think, it is a much more engaging way of writing.
On page 85, the final passage, you can tell that she is speaking to a specific ethnic audience. She says her people understand how to survive under pressure, and deal with being forced to abandon their ways on the surface.
I also feel her talking to a specific audience when on the second page she tells that her mother was upset with her speaking Spanish, with an accent, and that she talked back. Not to an ethnic audience but to the people who cannot help but speak back to things they feel aren’t fair.
Implications that there might be more than one audience I believe are slim, but you can tell because she makes a point to really connect with the reader at a few points and it feels like she’s trying to say you aren’t so different from her.
This piece makes me realize I can write in a way that grabs the reader’s attention by communicating to them through experiences and shared feelings. The language she uses really makes you as the reader feel as though she is writing specifically to you, and I can try to do the same.
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