How Does Amy Tan Use Language In Mother Tongue

Amy Tan, author of “Mother Tongue”, wrote a novella on the difficulties of her mother speaking and writing English; or more simply put, learning the correct rhetoric. Throughout the story, she ridicules her mother for her lack of ability to better express her thoughts in the 2nd hardest language on the Earth but seems to do it in the most loving way possible. Well, she tried to the best extent she could. Given the context of the situation Amy isn’t a horrible person or hatful towards her mother, her attitude is just…complex. She begins in paragraph seven with an emotional line of sentences: “But to me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It’s my mother’s tongue. Her language as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation