“The devil ate my words.” An excerpt titled Lengua Para Diablo from Merlinda Bobis’ Banana Heart Summer has the line “The devil ate my words.” which the father in the story always say whenever he had an argument with his wife as what their child is telling in the story. When he was about to say something but his wife cuts him, he will say, “The devil ate my words,” because he no longer is the man of the family but his wife is. Having no job, the father felt like he no longer had the control in their house so when it comes to deciding in their home, the father became mum and his wife became the alpha female of the house and therefore the reversal of roles is evident. In our time today, we sometimes don’t speak out to what we really feel just to stop the argument. We simply shut...