In this essay John McHorter believes that when language dies it can be an understanding of the idea of people coming together, a representation of society uniting toward one common language. He states; “At the end of the day, language death is, ironically, a symptom of people coming together.” In my opinion, McHorter’s views on language differs from Anzaldua’s view in that in “How to tame a wild tongue,” she views language as such a big part of someone’s culture that I hardly believe that she would see the death of language as people coming together. For example, Anzaldua writes of the many different variations of types of the Spanish language the people form to better suit the changes in their society, and the way in which they evolve as society changes, so it seems that Anzaldua believes that languages actually grows and changes as people grow and change, or “come together”. In McHorter’s essay, the death of language is a representation of people coming together while in Anzaldua’s essay, the growth and expansion of languages is a representation of people coming together.  Therefore, although both authors agree that language is of great importance, their viewpoints on the way society affects it differ.