Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, she is an Asian-American writer whose works focus a lot on mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese American experience. She grew up in a family with her Chinese mother who spoke broken English or limited English that difficult for many people to understand. Tan think this the reasons caused her spoke English differently. In her arctic, Tan talks about how the language has power that can affects a person’s life on many ways. Tan’s mother is first generation immigrants and spoke Chinese as her mother tongue, but also spoke broken English. Tan reflects on the way her mother used to speak, and the experiences she had to live because of her “broken” or “limited”
