“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan is an about a lady who make her judgments on how “broken language is compared to standard English. She addresses how language is just not a tool of communication but can also be at tool for sociological measuring individual worth. She goes on to tell us the problems her mother faces as an adult. Growing up she realizes something unusual about languages. She seems to think the way her mother speak English was somewhat broken. Some people think that the way her mother speaks
In "Mother Tongue", a short personal essay written by Amy Tan, the writer reveals the longstanding humiliation she underwent at the hands of her mother's limited English. The essay describes Tan's formative years as the daughter of two immigrant parents and she writes that she "grew up with two Englishes - American English and Chinese-English" (Tan 11). She reviews the conflicts her mother experienced as a woman with restrictive language skills, yet she explains the eloquence of her mother's tongue
Amy Tan had shown to feel emotions throughout the many anecdotes she shares within the lines of her short story, ‘Mother Tongue’. Countless of those emotions were directed towards her Mother’s broken English” which lead her to feel three major emotions. First there had been the embarrassment at an early age, the anger she had towards certain people when in her pre-adult stage, and finally the concluding thought of adoration towards her mother once she finally cared to understand. In the beginning