speaker is Amy Tan she is a best-selling author and her popular novels The Joy Luck Club‚ The Kitchen God’s Wife‚ and many more. She represents mother-daughter relationships and her heritage. Amy realized that mother was in the room when she was talking about her writing to a group. It made difference on her because she never talked in forms of Standard English with her mom. Furthermore‚ she has noticed how different her English is with her mother and showed an example of how her mother speaks. Amy thought
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how we feel‚ and how we act. These are among the people who hold the greatest influence. Amy Tan’s ’Two Kinds’ and Jamaica Kincaid’s ’Girl’ both deal with the relationship between a young girl and the guiding force in her life. Amy Tan tells of a mother’s expectation for her daughter to be a child prodigy. Jamaica Kincaid tells of an unknown person describing to a girl how to be a ’good’ girl. Both essays illustrate an authority figure that has expectations for a young female and why and how
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In the essay‚ “Mother Tongue” author Amy Tan‚ discusses the “power of language – the way it can evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth.” Tan began to explain that when she was speaking to a large group about her book‚ “The Joy Luck Club‚” she suddenly realized the different “Englishes” she uses. As she proceeds‚ she mentions the time when she was walking down the street with her mother and husband discussing prices of new and old furniture‚ where she became aware once
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Famed author Amy Tan was born on February 19‚ 1952 in Oakland California. Her father was an electrical engineer and a Baptist minister. Her mother believed in Chinese spirits and left behind three daughters when she immigrated to America. Tan was raised in Northern California‚ but when her older brother and father both died from brain tumors‚ her mother took her and her younger brother to Europe. By the time she graduated high school‚ she had been attended eleven schools. She also got arrested for
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Metamorphosis in Amy Tan’s Story‚ “Two Kinds” The excerpt from “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan describes the conflict between a mother and her rebellious daughter. The psychological effect of the struggle between personal freedom and the persistence of her mother’s will is shown as the protagonist and narrator‚ Jing-mei‚ recollects her upbringing. The transformation of her personality‚ under these circumstances‚ remains present throughout her life. Amy Tan uses a variety of narrative techniques to show
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A Glimpse of Amy Tan As one of the first Asian American cultural writers of her time‚ Amy Tan is also one of the most significant contemporary writers of Literature today. Amy Tan brings to life the struggles of dual cultural identity‚ generational clashes due to age and cultural gaps minority woman face in society. Many of her stories are based upon real obstacles her‚ her Mother and Grandmother had in their lives as young woman‚ facing not only the minority issues but the sexiest stigma’s of
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Amy Tan‚ the author of “Mother Tongue‚” gives the audience a new outlook and better understanding of the struggles that every immigrant who lives in United States had gone through every day. Amy Tan gives the audience the positive view on the “broken” English speakers by using herself and her mother as an example. Her mother did not get respect from the hospital and also the stockbroker due to her limited use of English. In contrast‚ Amy Tan was treated very well because of speaking proper English
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Mother Tongue is about the authors struggles with her linguistic identity‚ her mothers "fractured" or "broken" variation of english and the relationship with her mother. At the beginning of the piece we are told about the different types of english she would speak with her mother and with everyone else; we are then told how english wasn’t Amy’s strongest subject and later on we are told about the difficulties her mother experienced because of the way she spoke english and the prejudice she faced
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In Tthe story “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ a Chinese immigrant of English language writer‚ starts beingsher essay by with the author stating that while she is not a scholar of English literature‚ but she is trying to give express her personal opinions about regarding English language and how fascinating the language is for hershe finds the language. In addition‚ she explains that language is becomes a powerful tool to evoke an emotion‚ a visual image‚ a complex idea‚ or a simple truth. Furthermore
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From Amy tan’s “Mother tongue” it is evident that language has an effect on our lives. “Mother tongue” by Amy tan tell us how the writer can develop her English well even though she lives in the middle of family who speak broken English. All of it starts from her desired and her motivation to learn‚ make all of things around her become something that can be learned and take a positive side of it. In her essay she described a lot of problem she had faced to learn English. Tan and her mother faced
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