Amy Tan Mother's Tongue Summary

When speaking to others, we often forget is how we sound, and how we pronounce words differently from our peers. Amy Tan is a Chinese american author who wrote an article called Mother 's Tongue about her mother 's english affecting both of them in their lives. Tan noticed a lot of little details that were there with her mother 's English and her own. I noticed these details as well inside the article and came to the realization that people are discriminated against for having imperfect English.
With the using her mother as an example as someone with limited English she make it understandable. Then when she noticed herself speaking to a group about her novel the Joy Luck Club and about her writing. Tan realized something different about this discussion. Tan’s Mother was in the audience and Tan realized she was talking in a way that was not normal for her mother to hear. Then to realize she was …show more content…
Because we are with our families for longer periods of times than anyone else. It makes people grow closer as families when they all can understand each other without fear of being of judged. That affects someone out in the real world when comes to schools and tests. Tan feels this way because it has affected her schooling when she was younger.
Then when Tan was in school when she was younger she was pushed to towards science and math. While she was never doing poor english her teaches still pushed her towards those subjects. When Tan was in school she understood that with math there is always going to be one right answer for the problem. With english there was always different ways to say something with words. This somehow limits a person when they do not care about s
When Tan started to write her stories she decided to envision her mother as one the reader of her stories. She wrote with all the Englishes she knew growing up using with her