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In the literal sense of the phrase, “taming” one’s wild tongue, you can definitely put on some numbing cream or put her down with some sleeping medicine to calm the tongue and her. In a metaphorical tense, when speaking of controlling one’s speech, or quick temper, I think that just takes patience and maturity. When someone is young and someone says something mean to them, their first instinct is to react to that with something even worse. It takes a lot of maturity to realize that maybe that isn’t always the best way to go about it. One must think about their motives of speaking out against someone, as well as thinking about the possible consequences of those actions. Usually, people under the influence have a harder time doing this, so try to stay sober minded to keep one’s temper in check. In speaking of how Spanish was not allowed to be spoken in America, I believe that is just unethical and it is not possible to control one’s tongue in that situation. Language is a part of one’s culture and that should not be limited by anyone. Overall, controlling one’s tongue is not an easy task in any sense of the term, and it is almost impossible to make it “quiet,” but one can only try.

-Major Wheless

1) A wild woman ran from the police, even though she only had one leg. She was quickly captured.

2) A wild man was taking a dump on Guadalupe Street last weekend, when I was walking back to my apartment. 

3) A wild animal escaped from the Dallas zoo and was found in Austin a month later.

4) A wild beast was captured on film attacking a pride lions, but the beast quickly regretted that decision because he was easily overtaken.

5) The government is hiding a wild thing in Area 51. They just don’t want anyone to know about it yet.

-Major Wheless

Oscar Wilde is a well-known writer from Dublin, Ireland. He was born in 1854 and died in 1900, which essentially sets him in the era of Victorian poetry. Because of his extramarital affairs with other men, and his “gross indecency” trial, I wouldn’t say he was necessarily accepted, as he was even sentenced to prison for 2 years for his homosexual acts. Homosexuality was not very common back then, as it was even outlawed in most countries, as shown through his imprisonment. Although, nowadays it is socially acceptable to be openly homosexual. It is even thought of as brave to some, so I think Wilde would be accepted and probably even praised in a society nowadays. 

I do believe Oscar Wilde is a “wild” writer because in all of the poems I have read by him, he speaks of wild stories that even have the term wild in them. He speaks of a lot of wild metaphors of wild animals. One wild poem by him is Her Voice. The literal second word in the poem is wild, as shown by the first two lines: “THE wild bee reels from bough to bough with his furry coat and his gauzy wing.” The story talks about this woman who has to accept the fact that her and her husband are breaking up even though they vowed that they would stay together forever, through sickness and in health. The thought of divorce seems wild because love is supposed to glue a couple together, but we are only human and sometimes divorce is the only and best option for both sides to be happy moving forward. Wilde moves into the end of the relationship with the wild and intricate lines:

“Swore that two lives should be like one

As long as the sea-gull loved the sea,

As long as the sunflower sought the sun,–

It shall be, I said, for eternity

‘Twixt you and me!

-Major Wheless

Where The Wild Things Are and The Good Lion are completely different stories, yet they kind of have the same themes. Where the Wild Things Are kind of focuses on one’s imagination and one’s ability to think abstractly. In the book, it takes on a journey through the protagonist’s eyes into the wild with wild animals. The Good Lion focuses on the wild in Africa. It talks about the differences in culture between Africa and Italy, as the wild lions in Africa eat humans, while the Good Lion is outcasted because of his wings and food choice of pasta and scampi. These stories are similar in the fact that they both have a lot of personification and symbolism. They are also similar because they both have this underlying idea of being away from home, or “in the wild.” The Good Lion literally travels away from his home in Venice, while the protagonist in Where The Wild Things Are figuratively travels away from home in his imagination. 

One line I chose from The Good Lion that illustrates being away from home was, “They all roared in African Lion dialect. Then the good lion circled higher and higher and set his course for Venice.” The first sentence represents the wildness of Africa, and the wild nature of the lions in Africa, as they all roared together trying to get the good lion. The good lion then used his magical wings to escape this wild place and head back home.

One line in Where the Wild Things Are that illustrates the wild place away from home was, “Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye… and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him.” He was forced to leave his wild imagination and his wild animal friends in his imagination as shown in the first sentence. The second sentence illustrates the reality of being present minded in his home, as his dinner was ready.

-Major Wheless

The communicator of The Wizard of Oz is Frank Baum, the author, and Dorothy, the protagonist. I believe the text truly speaks to adults, because if you analyze it deep enough, the characters and themes have a much deeper level than what is seen on the surface. Children aren’t able to pick up on this, but adults are able to process and analyze the deeper meaning within the story. 

Quote from chapter 18: “The road is straight to the South,” he answered, “but it is said to be full of dangers to travelers. There are wild beasts in the woods.” 

Dorothy is with her newly found friends, such as the Scarecrow and the Woodman, and they are looking for a way to cross the desert to go South. The soldier tells them that know one knows, except for the Witch of the South. The soldier tells them that they will have to follow the road “straight to the South” to find her. The soldier has ethos, or credibility because he has been living there for a long time, and he knows of the castle. There is pathos by giving fear to the audience in the line, “it is said to be full of dangers to travelers.” Finally, there is a sense of logos in the term “wild beasts.” The animals that dwell on the road to the south are considered both wild and beasts. Both of these terms, especially wild, can appeal to the audience logically, as they understand the dangers that Dorothy will face can be very uncontrollable and unexpected.

-Major Wheless

I personally am into two different genres of music: rap and country. This specific wild song is a rap song though. The song is titled “Crazy Story” by King Von. King Von, former name Dayvon Daquon Bennet, is a rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He is affiliated with the gang O Block based out of Chicago. He was born and raised in the Chicago “hood,” yet he died in Atlanta, Georgia in a shootout when he was only 26 years old. This song was released only 2 years before King Von was shot and killed. 

This song is a true story about one of his friends who was attempting to rob someone and ended up shooting him. King Von tells the story from his friend’s point of view. The wildest part about the song is that it is actually true and goes into precise detail. He lays out the plan in his lyrics that this girl is going to meet up with the victim and lure him to the spot where the robbery is going to take place. The audience can tell he is rich because Von says that “he got bricks plus his neck is icy and it match his wrist.” This means he has a lot of money and a lot of diamond jewelry. She goes into his car to distract him, and the robber “sneak up, crouching like a tiger.” He then rose to the window, and “hit one in his arm, hit one in his thigh.” This means he shot both his arm and leg. This story is truly wild because of the precise detail of the plan and the actual crime.

-Major Wheless

One sport that I think is wild is the Lingerie Football League. It sounds like a joke, but it is a real women’s sport with hard hitting full contact. It is pretty much like the National Football League rules but on a much smaller scale. The games are played indoors on a field half the size of a regulation NFL field. Also, the women have much smaller pads and helmets, as they are required to wear a skimpy bikini as they play. The players are women in their 20s-30s, and their coaches are usually men who get surprisingly very intense. Assumingly, the audience is men ranging in all ages. It definitely speaks to men, as the women are dressed in basically nothing. It is the same rules that are applied in the NFL, which makes it seem pretty non-discriminatory towards women. However, they are forced to dress in bikinis that hardly cover anything. I think it is pretty ridiculous that women are forced to be sexualized even in sport. I believe they should have the option, or maybe even the requirement to wear full pads, helmets, and especially clothes. I wouldn’t say the women in this league hit as hard as the men in the NFL, but they should still have the same protection that NFL players have for their safety. The wildness in this sport in general, minus the fact that they hardly have any clothes on, is how intense the games get. This wildness ranges from fights on the field between the women, to fights in the stands between drunk rowdy fans.

One film that I would consider wild is Hacksaw Ridge. Hacksaw Ridge is a film by Mel Gibson made in 2016. It is a biographical film about the soldier Desmond Doss, played by the actor Andrew Garfield. In the beginning of the film, Desmond Doss almost kills his brother when they were fighting when they were younger. He says a poster of the sixth commandment, which reads, “Thou shalt not kill.” He then vows to never kill anyone. With this in mind, Doss still decides to enter the military and become a conscientious objector. He refuses to touch a weapon, but that helps him save many lives on the battlefield. His willingness and boldness to act on this make me see him and the movie in general as wild. My definition of wild here is crazy, and almost insane, as he is risking his life with no weapon to defend himself.

One scene, in particular, that is very wild is when Gibson, the director, shows a slow-motion scene of Doss running through the battlefield with a soldier on a stretcher. Doss is dodging bullets left and right with no weapon in hand. Although, the soldier on the stretcher has an automatic rifle just firing away in each and every direction. Doss really has the guts to go into battle, with all of this gunfire, risking his life for the sake of someone else’s life. This scene really hit me hard, as any one of those bullets could have ended Doss’s amazing life-saving career.

The dictionary has a few definitions for the term wild. The first definition of wild that comes up is the adjective, which describes an animal or plant as living or growing in the natural environment, not domesticated or cultivated, as well as lacking discipline or restraint. The noun definition describes a natural state or uninhabited region. Finally, the adverb definition of wild describes how someone might behave in an unrestrained or violent matter without regulation or control. Overall, my sense of the simple definition of wild describes something that is living in nature and is not domesticated, so it does not have a home.

In my opinion, wild is something, such as a person or animal, that is untamed. It is something that never grew up in a society where laws were put in place to follow. It is something that also never had a mature figure to look up to and admire to understand how society works or what is right and wrong. It is something that does not have a sense of moral responsibility in its respective culture or environment. It is something that lives on its own moral compass, disregarding any rules or laws. It is something that is essentially free. It will run freely and live on its own without any real home. It is free to do whatever its heart desires even if that action could lead to injury or even death. It is something that is unregulated and almost impossible to control, as it has a free spirit.