Rhetorical Reading Response: Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (1990)‚ which discusses her mother’s way of speaking through “broken English”‚ Tan explores the different “Englishes” that she has come into contact with in her everyday life; these variations have presented struggles in her mother’s life. Tan illustrates this to her audience by giving examples of the struggles her mother was faced with due to “her” English and the many versions of English that surrounds
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Reading Response Mother tongue usually means the language first learned by a person‚ but for Amy Tan it has a special meaning‚ limited language which is the language her mother speaks. Tan feel so deeply about her “mother tongue” because the limited language effects that many people misunderstand her mother. The way Tan’s mother speaks effects the native English speaker think that she isn’t able to express her thoughts perfectly and don’t want to communicate with her. For examples
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Mother Tongue‚ by Amy Tan I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations in this country or others. I am a writer. And by that definition‚ I am someone who has always loved language. I am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language -- the way it can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth. Language is the
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The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson Publisher: William Morrow Copyright: June 1990 ISBN: 0-688-07895-8 Format: Hardcover Pages: 270 It was about time for me to read another non-fiction book. This is an irreverant and often-humorous look at the history and quirks of the English language‚ covering both British and American English and the distinctions between them (and touching briefly on Australian as well). While it does touch on some of the origins and major turning points
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Among various people and particularly hunters‚ the buffalo is one of the dreaded animals on planet earth. The animal is more dangerous than the lion and the elephant. The buffalo is stronger‚ faster and usually moves in large groups. If a wounded or even a frightened buffalo determines to kill you there is actually little you can do to run away from it. If for any reason you desire to confront a buffalo‚ you cannot do it casually by using one hand but by both hands. This image
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“My Perspective of a Wild Tongue” “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ by Gloria Anzaldua‚ is a very expressive story about a Mexican American women’s struggle to preserve her culture. Her main fight revolves around a struggle to keep a form of Spanish‚ called “Chicano Spanish”‚ a live. In the short story she says‚ " for a people who cannot entirely identify with either standard (formal‚ Castilian) Spanish‚ or standard English‚ what recourse is left to them but to create their own language?"(page
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Katelyn McCoy English 1101 Summary/Response September 26‚ 2012 McCray “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” In the article‚ “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”‚ Gloria Anzaldua focuses on the idea of losing an accent or native language to conform to the current environment. Anzaldua grew up in the United States but spoke mostly Spanish. The problem is that the language she spoke was Chicano Spanish‚ not true Spanish. She was living in an English speaking environment‚ but was not Anglo. She wasn’t living
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A Serpents Tongue People recognise Lebron James as not only a legendary basketball player‚ but also an expert wordsmith. As Lebron left his home of Cleveland with the promise of fame and fortune in the land of the Miami Heat‚ he betrayed his hometown. Many expressed outrage about his betrayal and found themselves offended by his very name. People met the sudden switch from Miami and back to Cleveland with much anger and controversy from both cities. People threw rumors and hateful words his way
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Reflection Essay After reading the article “Mother Tongue”‚ I started interesting in Asian Immigration problem especially Chinese immigrants. The first generations of Chinese and Japanese immigrants were coming to the United States for mining gold‚ farming and railroad in the early of 19th century. They were followed by Korean and Filipino immigrants who came to work in the sugar cane plantations in Hawaii. Then‚ the growing numbers of Asian immigrants raise up much faster due to the economic
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familial English which her mother is able to understand even though most people can’t understand this kind of composition. For Tan‚ she was satisfied that her mother could understand it and she will protect the essential of their own language.“Mother Tongue” is a very personal; this essay represents that how the environment and parent’s education affect the writing. Author describes how her mother’s broken English by using many examples‚ make reader more understand about what is her feeling. Moreover
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