Amy’s mother immigrated from China, so she could not pronounce it clearly, but she could understand it. Amy spoke “broken English” to her mom. Broken English was to speak another language at home while speaking English in the societies. Therefore, Amy was her mom’s interpreter. The answers on English tests were ambiguous, …show more content…
Tan explains, “Math is precise; there is only one correct answer. Whereas for me at least, the answers on English tests were always a judgment call, a matter of opinion and personal experience” (137). Solving problems might mainly contain two types: academic and experience remedies. Academic remedy is to solve the problems with knowledge whereas some questions might not be able to solve with knowledge, so people need to experience the questions in real life before solving it. Tan saw that English was the course that could not find the exact answer, so she used her own experiences to address the English problems. Comparing to English subject, there is no best method for emotional control. There are many procedures to deal with negative emotions. Some procedures might work for some people while they might not be perfect for others using the same methods. Hence, I tried many processes to handle my negative emotions before achieving emotional