Amy Tan Mother Tongue Summary

In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. Tan emphasizes that we all speak in different languages in our own way, and how we are categorized by the way we speak. In this essay she is talking about how her Asian mom talks in a different kind of English and how that affected her growing up. Tan has a mother who is from Asia, she speaks in a language that Americans would call “broken English.” Tan said that she would all ways have to make phone calls or talk for her mom when they would go places because know one could understand her mother. Tan even said, “The fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her or, even acted as if they did not even hear her.” People were rude to her mother because she was a little different then them. …show more content…
For instants, I have a stutter, I don’t do it all the time, but I do it here or there. I seem to always do it when I am having and important conversation with someone, talking on the phone, or when I need to ask an employee at the store a question about where I can find something or if they can find me a different size in a shoe or in a shirt. When ever I’m in those situations where I start stuttering these people look at me like I’m crazy, like I do not know how to talk. I have even had some people act like they didn’t hear what I said and walk away. There would even be times when I was in high school some of my teacher would never call on me to read in class (not that I would want to, but they would never even ask if I wanted to). They new I stuttered from time to time and to me that made me feel like they thought I was incapable of reading and it would make me feel like I was not