Summary Of My Tongue By Amy Tan

Tan Begins to cry when she is told that her crush will be a guest at dinner, because she is not confident that he will be satisfied or accustomed to the nature of a Chinese dinner and would instead prefer the standard American dishes and would be shocked by the practices and customs of the Chinese dinner table.
Tan’s mother is attempting to demonstrate the importance of a sense of pride for her own ethnic ancestry. Her mother recognizes her daughter's own embarrassment and shame, and intends on be especially flamboyant to teach this lesson. A sentence that best personifies this would be when Tan’s mother states “But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.”
Tan is displeased with the rather boisterous nature of her family's customs, she is even more bothered, appalled even, by the array of foods her mother had prepared for dinner. Despite this I can only deduce that she had some sense of enjoyment of the foods due to her father offering her the fish cheek while exclaiming that it was her favorite. She seems to be embarrassed by her mother's efforts to teach her a lesson as well.
Tan draws the reader in by exclaiming how she, a chinese girl, had fallen in love with an especially white American boy. She expressed how ashamed she was of her appearance and wished she could of had a slender American nose.
Tan breaks up the story into sections by using transitive vocabulary before each section. Every section discusses a particular setting as well as how she was feeling in each unique setting to clarify her emotional