In the article Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, she scrutinizes her mother’s language, her own use of English and society’s response to different peoples English usage, to show us the power of a language. It’s not very often that we see Asian- Americans writing books and getting big hits, because some English that they write or speak is not fully understood. Tan uses her own personal experiences to get us to realize that language is so broad. She uses a lot of examples of her mother’s “broken” English, how people can’t understand her and how she was always embarrassed by the way she spoke. Tan spent a lot of time studying the English language and she has become perfect at understanding it. This has given her the ability to see the difference in the
