When Tan talks about how she feels "ashamed" of her mother 's English and how her mother was looking down by others. For instance, when Tan 's mother goes to "department stores... banks... restaurants... people... did not take her seriously... not give her good service..."(Tan). All of this was the outcome of the way she pronounces English and it was just because of her "tongue". Similarly, when Baldwin says that a person in the different region will have a various way to pronounce a language and depend on what they were learned in school. As a result of that, people "in Paris speaks a subtly...different language from... man living in Marseilles..."(Baldwin). Both Tan and Baldwin affirm in their unique styles of displaying ideas of how a language could affect an individual 's social status or treatment. When Tan 's mother wants to get her "CAT scan of brain tumors" from the hospital, the doctors refused to give her the "scan" and did not even try to apologize. Also, they "would not give any information"(Tan) even though Tan 's mother told them that she is afraid because some of her family died by "brain tumors". After a while, they decided to call Tan, and with her flawless English they eventually promised to give her the "scan" on the next
When Tan talks about how she feels "ashamed" of her mother 's English and how her mother was looking down by others. For instance, when Tan 's mother goes to "department stores... banks... restaurants... people... did not take her seriously... not give her good service..."(Tan). All of this was the outcome of the way she pronounces English and it was just because of her "tongue". Similarly, when Baldwin says that a person in the different region will have a various way to pronounce a language and depend on what they were learned in school. As a result of that, people "in Paris speaks a subtly...different language from... man living in Marseilles..."(Baldwin). Both Tan and Baldwin affirm in their unique styles of displaying ideas of how a language could affect an individual 's social status or treatment. When Tan 's mother wants to get her "CAT scan of brain tumors" from the hospital, the doctors refused to give her the "scan" and did not even try to apologize. Also, they "would not give any information"(Tan) even though Tan 's mother told them that she is afraid because some of her family died by "brain tumors". After a while, they decided to call Tan, and with her flawless English they eventually promised to give her the "scan" on the next