Amy Tan

that one will not find happiness by depreciating their own culture. Tan, to begin with, effectively uses narration to demonstrate the shame Amy has of her heritage and her desire to fit in with American culture. For instance, Tan displays Amy’s insecurity of her Chinese heritage when she states, “[what] would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners?” (par. 2). This example portrays that Amy views America highly by conveying their manners in an appealing way…

The essay “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan tells readers that she had two different types of languages that she speaks. One is used for the public and the second used at home with her mother. During a large conference she was telling about a book she had written and was using Standard English. Suddenly she remembers that her mother was there and never heard Ms. Tan speak this way. When Ms. Tan was at home with her mother they spoke in the same way and fashion. Many times, in the writer’s…

families in California was published by Amy Tan. One of the final stories in the novel is titled “Two Kinds”, which follows a young girl named Jing-Mei and her mother. The two had just recently moved the San Francisco, CA in the 1950’s. Throughout the story Jing-Mei struggles with living up to her mother’s high expectations while keeping herself content as well. Mei’s mother repeatedly damages their relationship while she tries to push her daughter to fame. Amy Tan had lived a very similar life…

Response to Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan, a famous Chinese-American novelist, in her essay "Mother Tongue", tells us she live with a “broken English” mother and it had a negative impact on her English performance. Nevertheless, she never gave up and chose English as her major. Fortunately, her books are recognized by the world and she became a best-selling author. Finally, she using her own special English in her writing career and reveal her mother’s thoughts. Why her mother did not speak…

throughout your life? In "Mother Tongue" Amy Tan knew how hard her mother tried to defend herself from other people, but in instances people said they did not understand what Amy's mother was saying. "And I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her" (Tan 651). Our biggest motivators in…

When speaking to others, we often forget is how we sound, and how we pronounce words differently from our peers. Amy Tan is a Chinese american author who wrote an article called Mother 's Tongue about her mother 's english affecting both of them in their lives. Tan noticed a lot of little details that were there with her mother 's English and her own. I noticed these details as well inside the article and came to the realization that people are discriminated against for having imperfect…

the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, it shows how Chinese-Americans are affected with the proper english language than Americans. In this essay, Chinese-Americans are represented as human beings who do not have those same high abilities educationally as Americans do. Chinese-Americans have the chance of not being understood, which is a thing that can affect them in life. To show how Chinese-Americans do not have the same high abilities as Americans, educationally, Amy provides an example of an…

the author Amy Tan explicitly demonstrates how she has developed her perspectives about language and the way of thinking under the influence of her mother’s limited English skill. The strategies Tan used to support her argument include vivid anecdote, striking contrast, and emotionally appealing parallelism. This journal is going to analyse how those rhetorical devices were being used during the delivery of Tan’s stories, and present my connections with her. At the beginning, Tan employed…

In “Mother Tongue” Amy Tan discusses the differences in English among different cultural backgrounds. In Tan’s article she focuses on how people are narrow minded towards those of different culture and language backgrounds. She does not criticize nor correct others language. Tan says, “I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others.” Tan argues that it is not about the whether…

The Motifs of Amy Tan in “The Joy Luck Club” Often, Tan writes about struggling mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese- American experience. In Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck Club,” she cultivates her life throughout the novel by illustrating connections between the characters in the novel and her own life. Equally important, Tan is the daughter of two Chinese immigrants, this is where her inspiration for writing about these differences comes into play. Tan and her own mother had…