Euromail And Amerimail Analysis

The authors of both Euromail and Amerimail and Mother Tongue, obviously have a passion for language and communication. The author of Euromal and Amerimail explains why and how email has shaped the the two continents. Mother Tongue shows how the different forms of english has affected her relationship with her mother and her audience. Both authors used the two types email and mother-daughter relationship to help us define the personality between mother, daughter, America and Europe. fix.
The descriptions given about Euromail and Amerimail were given to express the Wiener's ideas of the people of the two continents themselves. Euromail and Amerimail show how people converse via email in two different continents. Amerimail is “a bundle of contradictions: rambling and yet direct; …show more content…
Her mother who came directly from china is trying to understand the “standard “ form of English as much as possible. Even though it is hard for her, she is still willing. The narrator became “aware of the different Englishes” ( Tan ,page 221) she uses. She wouldn’t talk to her mother the way she would in school or even to her audience in books. She would speak in “broken English” to help her mother understand everyday things. “Not waste money that way.”(Tan ,page 222) She hates to call it broken but there isn’t any other way she could describe it. The mother English ashamed the narrator. Even though she was ashamed to she would still take up and help her mother. She would often take calls for her so she wouldn’t embarrass herself and for others to understand her. The narrator is very considerate in regards to her mother. It’s the same for her mother. When reading her book, she responded with “ So easy to read”. It shows that even if she couldn’t understand it, she still tried. It seems as if she was mocking herself. She must have a good heart to bring humor out of such a