"Mother Tongue" is an essay written by Chinese writer Amy Tan, In this essay Amy Tan writes about her passion towards language and the way it can evoke emotions, visual images, and complex ideas however she also writes about the discrimination towards people who speak "broken" English compared to "Standard" English.
In my opinion i believe that Amy Tan is trying to give the readers a cryptic definition of Language which is that language is a measure of how educated someone is. Tan gives the readers the impression that her mother is uneducated woman who does not comprehend the English language and that some people might treat her mother poorly such as when Tan states that her mother finishes writing her stock portfolio but she never received a check that she was supposed to receive so Amy's mother wanted tan to call the stockbroker and act like her because her mother knew in her her head what she wanted to say but didn't know how to convey them into comprehensible sentences and she also wanted people to treat her seriously and respectfully but with her "broken" English Amy's mother knew that this wouldn't happen unless her daughter would speak instead of her.
I really enjoyed reading this essay, because Tan explains in many examples her struggles as a kid, how shes dealt with her mother, and how her use of proper English helped her mother in many ways especially since they were in an English speaking country and finally her hidden definition of language which runs throughout the whole essay that i stated in paragraph 2.
In my opinion i believe that Amy Tan is trying to give the readers a cryptic definition of Language which is that language is a measure of how educated someone is. Tan gives the readers the impression that her mother is uneducated woman who does not comprehend the English language and that some people might treat her mother poorly such as when Tan states that her mother finishes writing her stock portfolio but she never received a check that she was supposed to receive so Amy's mother wanted tan to call the stockbroker and act like her because her mother knew in her her head what she wanted to say but didn't know how to convey them into comprehensible sentences and she also wanted people to treat her seriously and respectfully but with her "broken" English Amy's mother knew that this wouldn't happen unless her daughter would speak instead of her.
I really enjoyed reading this essay, because Tan explains in many examples her struggles as a kid, how shes dealt with her mother, and how her use of proper English helped her mother in many ways especially since they were in an English speaking country and finally her hidden definition of language which runs throughout the whole essay that i stated in paragraph 2.
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