Questions for “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan Name _________________________________ Questions on Subject and Purpose 1. What does the title “Mother Tongue” suggest? 2. List the different Englishes Tan describes, defining each. 3. Of her mother’s English, Tan writes, “That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world” (par.7). How was ...
“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan Questions Meaning: 1. For Tan the phrase “mother tongue” has a special meaning. How would you summarize this meaning? Why does Tan feel so deeply about her “mother tongue”? 2. In what ways does the English that Tan’s mother speaks affect how people outside the Chinese American community think of her? What examples does Tan give ...
Continue Mother tongue amy tan analysis essay Kevin TranProfessor Natalie KubasekEnglish 12019 February 2015 "Madre Tongue" Rector Analysis There has always been the assimilation and change necessary in any country when he came to accept foreigners to already possessed lands. However, it became harmful to those people as they felt uncomfortable and unwelcome. In Amy Tan’s “Madre Tongue” Tan, Tan ...
“Mother Tongue” Essay by Amy Tan Background Amy Tan became a writer even though her mother wanted her to be a neurosurgeon and a concert pianist. Her parents fled to the US due to China’s Communist revolution, and she was born in Oakland, California. Her first novel was “The Joy Luck Club”. Exposition / Beginning Main purpose: She explains and introduces the ...
MOTHER TONGUE - AMY TAN III Semester Common Course : Literature and/as Identity II B.A. / B.Sc / B.Com Aquinas College, Edacochin • Chinese American Author AMY TAN • Born : 1952, Oakland , California • Parents : John and Daisy Tan (First Generation Chinese Settlers) • Major Works : The Joy Luck Club (Global Acclaimed) Rules of the Game The Kitchen God' ...
ESSAY Mother Tongue Don't judge a book by its cover or someone's intelligence by her English. By Amy Tan Art by Gabe Leonard I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot nation" and "There is an aspect of my Fiction that give you much more than personal opinions on the relates to thus-and-thus"—a speech ...
ESSAY Mother Tongue Don't judge a book by its cover or someone's intelligence by her English. By Amy Tan Art by Gabe Leonard I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot nation" and "There is an aspect of my Fiction that give you much more than personal opinions on the relates to thus-and-thus"—a speech ...
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 ...
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