Like Amy Tan, her language of intimacy was not Chinese, although she is Chinese. It was English and that was not her first language. It was the way in which she changes the so called “proper” usage of it that makes it unique and it was the same way her mother spoke and raised her, with the same English she uses with her husband. Tan was able to make English into something else than what it already was. Language is all about personal interpretation and Tan altered it so that it would be like a code for personal familial usages. Within that, the cartographer has mad the road map to individualism, one of the most important provocations that language has to offer. Even as a writer, she chooses not to discard such a valuable type of language usage. She has learned to value this type of English for the soul sake of it being the teacher of her youth, therefore setting an example that language is not only native, communicative, and spoken but also
Like Amy Tan, her language of intimacy was not Chinese, although she is Chinese. It was English and that was not her first language. It was the way in which she changes the so called “proper” usage of it that makes it unique and it was the same way her mother spoke and raised her, with the same English she uses with her husband. Tan was able to make English into something else than what it already was. Language is all about personal interpretation and Tan altered it so that it would be like a code for personal familial usages. Within that, the cartographer has mad the road map to individualism, one of the most important provocations that language has to offer. Even as a writer, she chooses not to discard such a valuable type of language usage. She has learned to value this type of English for the soul sake of it being the teacher of her youth, therefore setting an example that language is not only native, communicative, and spoken but also