In the poem “Green Chili” by Jimmy Santiago Baca the author shows us how Baca writes the poem with passion but not only does he show us that, he also shows us how he uses the language and the culture together to create his poems with passion. Baca shows us how mastering language shows us how to thrive and helps us how to create a culture and family. In Baca’s poem he shows us how family and culture can be put together into a poem. Family helps us create our identities and the poem shows that through the literature in the poem and how it is all combined and put together. To continue, the discussion we had about language relates to the “Green Chili” poem because we get our identity from our families, he is saying that how we grow up and who
