Most Meaningful Takeaway

David Malouf's work "The Only Speaker of his Tongue| has made me see the intriguing connection between nature, men and culture. I could feel the passion in which he links the indigenous tongue to every aspect of life. Language has become the key to one's identity and ethnical origin. A tongue is mastered by the simplest rhymes and verses; it is where the roots of a language have settles their pristine perceptions of their culture and ethnicity. It tells the tails of traditions, norms and values of unique ancestry. It is the driving force behind the understanding of their environmental senses and impressions. 

"When I think of my tongue being no longer alive in the mouths of men a chill goes over that is deeper than my own death, since it is the gathered death of all my kind." This passage in specific depicts the astonishing meaning of indigenous languages and the impact of one dying out affecting the entire culture. The liveliness that was once present in between the lines and words of native tongues, the words that told stories about the nature of their cultural inception and the feelings that were exposed throughout their linguistics will now only be remembered by written documents.