Speaking in Tongues

 

After reading the essay “Speaking in Tongues” by Zadie Smith the purpose has multiple meanings however language is a majority part of this essay, also that being flexible is a great characterstic in many ways. I also got an underlining message that everybody wants to be who he or she are and be accepted in return. The message that I got from this text is that people judge other people by what they look like or how they dress or just the way they act. I feel that smith really values flexible in the sense she used to speak a different way before and now she speaks a way that is “her own proper way”. A quote from the text “Hello. This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with its rounded vowels and consonants in more or less the right place-this is not the voice of my childhood.  I picked it up in college”, I feel that she speaking in a different tone makes her feel more comfortable and being accepted and if she could be her self she would have not been speaking differently now. So in the end I feel that Smith was trying to say is that you don’t have to change your self to be accept, people will judge you no matter what.