Mother Tongue
Mother tongue takes a firm hold on one’s mind from the very beginning. In true sense it is intermingle with our lives and consciousness. In Mother Tongue Amy Tan, A chinese American novelist calls her mother’s English her “mother tongue”. Throughout the story Amy highlights the consequences she and her mother faced because of speaking…
Amy Tan, the author of Mother Tongue has a very simple, yet important claim. It is that one’s intelligence should not be judged based upon the amount of knowledge or spoken words of the English language. Tan states this claim clearly in the header of the article. She states, ‘Don’t judge a book by its…
Amy Tan argues that her mother’s broken English affected her day to day life; she says that she came to a realization that she used different forms of English depending on whether she was in a formal or informal setting. By using her relationship with her mother, she shows how her mother’s knowledge of English…
In her article “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan explained how her family background, her mother “broken” structure of English has affected her life in overall which led her into struggling of finding her own identity. Although she had some concerns about her mother’s English and her life throughout the story, but in the end she realized…
The inability to communicate in fluent English is sometimes unfairly characterized as an incapacitation. At the point when individuals can’t impart their musings in familiar English, those listening to them fail to address them with the seriousness required. In some cases, it is seen as some form of disability and a person is demeaned. Together…
At times when my mother attends my call and says “Yes, tell what happened”, my instant reaction would be to clarify “Mamma, hum bol rahe hai”, even after knowing that she is aware that I have called. Though she did not speak in an unusual way nor was the statement wrongly framed, but the fact…
Amy Tan is an Asian American writer who is 68 years old. In her previous works such as Joy Luck Club and Kitch Gods Wifes she focuses on relationships between mother and daughters. Specifically with mother and daughters with which the mother is an immigrant and new culture as well as the Chinese culture. It…
