Amy Tan Mother Tongue Summary
Deshanna Glenn
Jomelyn Belcher
Antonio Rivera
Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue, written by Amy Tan, is a short story about her family. Amy’s family is Asian Americans, whom came to America later in their lives, the reason why they do not speak English very well. In her short story, Mother tongue, She emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages without being consciously aware, and that we are categorized by the way we speak. Amy Tan said that she begin to realize the unusual differences that goes on with language, at least her own, because of the Chinese her mother grew up speaking and the English her mother now uses as her "second language," Amy's uses this version of her mother's English, and uses her own perception that her mother's …show more content…
Her In fact, she recalls one time when her first boss told her that her writing was her worst skill and she should focus her talents towards account management. With determination, she set out to proved statistic wrong, and her former boss. Amy said she enjoyed the challenge and beating the odds. Amy started writing in all different forms of English from simple, complex, and broken because of her mother, she wanted to keep her thoughts pure. Moreover, in the end she published a book and said, “I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my mother finished reading my book and gave me her verdict": "So easy to read.” When her mother said she had liked the book that was much more important to her than any other critics opinion. She celebrates the fact that she did not follow the expectations that people had of her because of her struggle with writing and language.
After reading “Mother Tongue”, I was reminded of how wrong it is to judge people because they can’t express their ideas or feelings due to of their limited language skills were
Jomelyn Belcher
Antonio Rivera
Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue, written by Amy Tan, is a short story about her family. Amy’s family is Asian Americans, whom came to America later in their lives, the reason why they do not speak English very well. In her short story, Mother tongue, She emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages without being consciously aware, and that we are categorized by the way we speak. Amy Tan said that she begin to realize the unusual differences that goes on with language, at least her own, because of the Chinese her mother grew up speaking and the English her mother now uses as her "second language," Amy's uses this version of her mother's English, and uses her own perception that her mother's …show more content…
Her In fact, she recalls one time when her first boss told her that her writing was her worst skill and she should focus her talents towards account management. With determination, she set out to proved statistic wrong, and her former boss. Amy said she enjoyed the challenge and beating the odds. Amy started writing in all different forms of English from simple, complex, and broken because of her mother, she wanted to keep her thoughts pure. Moreover, in the end she published a book and said, “I knew I had succeeded where it counted when my mother finished reading my book and gave me her verdict": "So easy to read.” When her mother said she had liked the book that was much more important to her than any other critics opinion. She celebrates the fact that she did not follow the expectations that people had of her because of her struggle with writing and language.
After reading “Mother Tongue”, I was reminded of how wrong it is to judge people because they can’t express their ideas or feelings due to of their limited language skills were