“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan is a story about the different ways to speak English she used to communicate with different people throughout her childhood. I agree with her that our intelligence is judged by the way we speak. Tan described that the language she was taught in her family by her mother’s tongue has affected her English greatly. As a child, she often felt ashamed when she observed that her mother was disrespected by bank services, department stores and restaurants. Many formal English speakers did not take Tan’s mother seriously by faking not to understand her and acted as if she did not speak at all. The only reason why they treated Tan’s mother in a disrespectful manner was because Tan’s mother spoke “broken English”. I strongly
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The doctors gave Tan’s mother very limited responses, but Tan’s mother insisted on staying at the hospital until they call her daughter. After the doctors spoke to Tan, they immediately apologized and the CAT scan results were found. Tan can speak English, but Tan’s mother could not therefore they did not bother apologizing to her. Tan expresses that she feels proud to speak broken English to her mother because it is the broken English that built a lovable connection with her mother and she enjoys communicated with her mother using that dialect of English. Tan does a great job at explaining the struggles her mother faced from being an immigrant that does not speak fluent English. Immigrant parents are often calling their children for help with her paperwork, reading the mail and such, but society might view immigrants as lazy people who do not want to learn English, but just like Tan’s mother, even if they try, at the end of the day, they still have to depend on their family members to help them. She highlights the importance of how society disrespects ones who do not speak fluent English. She has taught her readers that it is completely normal to communicate with “broken” English because it is another way for others to build connections with each
The doctors gave Tan’s mother very limited responses, but Tan’s mother insisted on staying at the hospital until they call her daughter. After the doctors spoke to Tan, they immediately apologized and the CAT scan results were found. Tan can speak English, but Tan’s mother could not therefore they did not bother apologizing to her. Tan expresses that she feels proud to speak broken English to her mother because it is the broken English that built a lovable connection with her mother and she enjoys communicated with her mother using that dialect of English. Tan does a great job at explaining the struggles her mother faced from being an immigrant that does not speak fluent English. Immigrant parents are often calling their children for help with her paperwork, reading the mail and such, but society might view immigrants as lazy people who do not want to learn English, but just like Tan’s mother, even if they try, at the end of the day, they still have to depend on their family members to help them. She highlights the importance of how society disrespects ones who do not speak fluent English. She has taught her readers that it is completely normal to communicate with “broken” English because it is another way for others to build connections with each