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    The article “My Mother’s English” by Amy Tan is mainly about the author’s thoughts and judgments on her mother broken English in comparison to “Standard English”. Tan is a fictional writer who is “fascinated by language in daily life” (Tan 1) and uses language as everyday part of her work as a writer. Tan’s point in this article is to prove that even if her mother is speaking English! Others should not use that to judge your intelligence. Tan’s mother did not speak perfect English‚ but the points

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    A Glimpse Into Amy Tan

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    A Glimpse of Amy Tan As one of the first Asian American cultural writers of her time‚ Amy Tan is also one of the most significant contemporary writers of Literature today. Amy Tan brings to life the struggles of dual cultural identity‚ generational clashes due to age and cultural gaps minority woman face in society. Many of her stories are based upon real obstacles her‚ her Mother and Grandmother had in their lives as young woman‚ facing not only the minority issues but the sexiest stigma’s of

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    Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue Throughout the passage of “Mother Tongue‚” the author Amy Tan uses strategies in a way to have the reader influenced by the point she is trying to prove. And in this case she is explaining the idea of language in the Asian-American community. She is speaking through multiple perspectives in her own life to show how society is not very understanding to people who are native speakers or can not speak as fluently‚ in a way that people view their English speaking in different

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    Alhaddada By Amy Tan

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    AlhaddadA Essay Submitted by AL HADDAD‚ AHMED MOHAMED (AL HADDAD) on 9/10/2010 6:14:16 PM Amy Tan is a daughter of a Chinese emigrant‚ who had a dream of going to America‚ to escape poverty and provide a better quality of life and education for her daughter. This dream is accomplished‚ providing her daughter with the right tools to become a successful writer‚ and she then goes and discusses her relation with her roots and heritage‚ through the language she is speaking now‚ English. She mentions

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    Family and Amy Tan

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    Snapshot: Lost Lives Of Women By: Amy Tan 1a)b) Three phrases that indicate the status of women in china in 1922 would be; "Jingmei‚ my own grandmother‚ She was the widow of a poor scholar‚ a man who had the misfortune of dying from influenza when he was about to be appointed a vice magistrate. In 1924 or so‚ a rich man forced her into becoming one of his concubines. My grandmother‚ now an outcast‚ took her young daughter to live with her on an island outside of Shanghai. She left her son behind

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    Amy Tan Themes

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    Essay Writing Amy Tan’s beautifully written novel outlines what it is to be an immigrant in America and a daughter‚ woman‚ wife‚ lover‚ sister and friend. The novel shows four different stories each from different women that were born in China but forced to leave due to tragic occurrences‚ and their four daughters who were all born on the other side of the world‚ America. The novel explores one of the themes‚ the cultural divide between the two generations of women and their daughters and how

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    Amy Tan has a contentious relationship with her mother perceived from her hostile tone. All mother-daughter relationships have troubles. In excerpts from Amy Chua’s memoir‚ Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom‚ and Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ mother-daughter relationships can be seen through diction‚ and tone. The annoyed tone in the situation between Amy Chua and her daughter shows a caring relationship while the hostile and hateful tone in Amy Tan’s excerpt shows a poor relationship with a hateful

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    Amy Tan Fish Cheeks

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    culture. Amy Tan explained the story in great detailed and also taught an excellent lesson about not being afraid to be diverse from other people. “You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.” People act different‚ culture wise yet‚ at the end of the day everyone is alike. Sharing your heritage to the world is a great thing because other people can learn from it and won’t be afraid to share their own. The reading Fish Cheeks‚ is a positive story because Amy Tan shared

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    Mother Tongue By Amy Tan

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    Tongue by Amy Tall Kaé Murray-Francis September 2‚ 2011 Florida Memorial University Recently‚ in my College Writing II class‚ I had the opportunity to read‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. I enjoyed reading the essay so much that I decided to write my own analysis. “Mother Tongue” is an essay based on the power of language and the will to communicate. However‚ the essay is not just about language itself‚ but also about the relationship between a mother‚ Mrs. Tan‚ and her daughter‚ Amy Tan‚ who moved

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    Amy tan reading response

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    Amy Tan writes‚ in this essay‚ about the language that she and her mother used in their family while Tan was growing up. She makes a great effort to explain that their language‚ English‚ was never "broken" or "simple" as most people would say about it. Although she could speak perfect English‚ her mother could not. But‚ she grew up with her mother’s English way of speaking‚ and therefore learned to consider it as a natural language. She is trying to make a point here by saying that there is absolutely

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