Analysis Of Amy Tan's Mother Tongue

At first, I believed that Amy Tan views her “mother tongue” as an intimate thing between family. I believe this because she says “ It has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk, the language I grew up with” (Tan, 1). This sentence demonstrates her opinion about her “mother tongue” because she values it and only uses it with those closest to her. Additionally, Tan views her “mother tongue” as a simple yet elegant language that she can clearly understand despite the fact that many other people are unable he dialect of English. I know this because she writes, “Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly
natural. It’s my mother tongue” (Tan, 2). To Tan her “mother tongue” was the language that “made sense of the world,” (Tan, 1). Overall, she views her “mother tongue” in a positive and personal way.