Amy Tan

with every person. People have different communication styles based on where they live and grew up. Certain regions speak differently than other regions based on geographical differences. Amy Tan, in “Mother Tongue,” highlights these different communication patterns when she addresses stories about her mother (Mrs. Tan) and the way the made-up standards affects her interaction with other people. Mrs. Tan’s style of speech causes different types of people to discriminate against her because her…

There are two stories that are very similar in the text. Se Habla Espanol by Tanya Maria Barrientos and Mother Tongue by Amy Tan are both about young women who are children, immigrants. They both have different stereotypes that they must overcome. In this day and time, there are different stereotypes, with these stereotypes different people are affected. She would soon gain acceptance of her culture after accepting who she was. Barrientos moved to the U.S. when she was three years old. She is a…

The, setting, symbols and theme in “A Pair of Tickets” In Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”, the author describes the quest of a young American- Chinese woman who is on a mission to fulfill her deceased Mother’s dream of finding the twin daughters she had to abandon as a young woman in war-torn China. Amy Tan skillfully uses the setting, symbols, and the theme to explore the lead character’s feelings about her heritage. The setting of the story is China in the late 1980s. While, the now…

In the text “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan, Waverly, the main character matured faster due to her Chinese cultural value being humble. Being humble is a value that is hard for a kid to learn, so for her to learn it at a young age she has become more of an adult. Since it is more of a mature value, Waverly was forced to grow into an adult faster than other kids her age. When Waverly was young she thought she was, “like most other Chinese children who played in back alleys of restaurants and…

The essay ¨ Mother Tongue¨ by Amy Tan is an essay written in her opinion about language and about how we use it. If the essay were read and interpreted by people from Japan and the Netherlands the essay will be viewed differently because these people grew up with different cultures and customs. In Japan, Japanese people will be able to relate to Amy´s mother. The line “ the fact that people… did not take her seriously… pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her”…

Two Kinds Author Amy Tan gives a remarkable look in the story “Two Kinds” into the dynamics of a clash of culture in one family. At some points in the story, it is hard to tell the protagonist from the antagonist. The man vs man conflict between mother and daughter is dynamic as it flows between them. Another interesting conflict is the battle between “Ni Kan’s” and “Waverly”, in addition to her mother and “Auntie Lindo” struggle to prove which daughter is more talented. The conflict of man vs…

Not all people who speak the English language speaks it the same way. In the essay, “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan analyses how the societies judge people by the way they speak. Tan talks about her mother having limited English, since that people give her less priority than needed. Her mother can understands every word that fluent English speaker says, however, it is hard for her to express her words. In the essay, “The F word”, by Firoozeh Dumas illustrates her personal anecdote to describe the…

through “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. Tan’s parents fled from China in the 1940’s with many other people because of China’s Cultural Revolution and when they came to America, they had trouble assimilating with Americans. Tan, on the other hand, had a less difficult time adapting to the American Culture because she was born in America. In Mother Tongue, Tan begins the passage by explaining how powerful language is and then continues on to tell stories that help prove her point. Tan speaks about the…

In her article, “Mother’s tongue”, Amy Tan narrates the changes of cognition of her mother’s tongue based on her own experiences. She begins her essay by introducing herself as a writer instead of a scholar of English, which ingeniously makes a closer connection with readers. She describes three personal anecdotes from different time periods of her lifetime to create a comprehensive view for the definition of “Mother’s tongue”. The first one happened recently at her speech, which is the…

with the broken English. The author Amy tan reflects this phenomenon by writing an article called Mother Tongue. In this text, tan demonstrates that her mother suffered unequal treatment because her mother didn’t have the ability to speak with the…