Mother Tongue Summary

In the essay of “Mother Tongue” is about a Chinese woman who challenged herself to learn and speak English well. Her daughter is like a novelist and knows different kind of englishes while growing up. She realized the different types of English she spoke with her parents and to the outsiders, she felt good about it though. However, her mother was a different, some say they understand her 80% of time, some say they don’t understand at all but as her daughter she sees it as perfectly clear and natural. Living a life like this is careless because many people are hypocrites especially to those that don’t speak well English. In the essay the mother was sent to the hospital for an appointment and found out she had a brain tumor and the doctor told
her they apparently couldn’t find the CAT scan for her and that they wouldn’t release any more information until her daughter comes. The mother was treated very unfairly because of her broken English and that wasn’t right of them. In today’s society many people especially teenagers are hypocrites because they always bother those that cant defend themselves or can’t really speak much of their language. Even teachers are stereotypes because for example, they feel that Chinese people such only focus on math and that’s why many Chinese people struggle in English. In today world, there is still a lot of stereotypes and hypocrites and I feel that this would never be changed.