This “broken” English limited even Tan’s own perception of her mother; she believed her mother’s imperfect English meant that her mother’s ideas and thoughts must be imperfect as well. When in public, people would pretend to not understand her mother or just flat out ignore her. Tan talks about being one of the main avenues of communication for her mother, pretending to be her on calls to a stockbroker, interpreting what her mother wished to say into formal English for others. She believed that due to her mother’s limitations that it would effectively limit her own possibilities in the future. As an adult, Tan takes great effort to point out that, although her mother speaks in “broken” English, this by no means lessens her mother’s intelligence; she reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street Week, and engages in daily calls with her stockbroker.
The author says, “We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (3). It became compulsory for girls to wear a veil. A school is expected to introduce activities which would help develop the knowledge or the personality of it’s students but here in this school the girls were made to wear veil’s without any reasonable explanation. It was just an outcome of the cultural revolution that the girls were forced to wear veil’s even though it did not contribute to their education or personality development in any way. The girls, including the author, mocked the veil by playing around with it in various ways and not doing what they were supposed to do with it.
This essay has a good discussion of Anzaldua defending the feelings and explaining how people like her feel when they are exposed to this because of the way she speaks the ‘American’. Anzaldua was required to take two speech classes at Pan American University just to get rid of her accent this is a example of linguistic prejudge she was exposed to. Therefore it was not just to get rid of her accent but also to get use to the American culture. I noticed this essays audience is Chicanos she wants to let them know we got to be who we are not what others want us to be like. Another audience can be to people who prejudge people like Anzaldua to make them feel guilty and keep them from prejudging others.
She strongly dislikes her sister’s eagerness to fit in at school and tells Bianca, “You don’t always have to be what other people want you to be”, which shows us that she thinks Bianca should be herself and not follow in the path that her fellow school mates take. These two quotes show us how Kat feels about individuality and how she thinks it affects others. We often see Kat getting kicked out of the classroom for expressing her opinions which shows that she doesn't fit in. One of the first scenes in the movie shows Kat in her worn down car.The punk rock music coming from Kat's car is very different compared to the teenage girls in the car to her left. The camera shows the first group of teenage girls listening to music that you would hear on the radio, and then shows Kat, alone in her car, looking bored with her punk rock music blaring from the speakers of her car.
Black feminist must have personal life experiences, must interact with the ordinary Black woman to develop deeper thoughts and ideas, and must maintain accountability for their work and whatever backlash it might receive. The second key group is the acceptance of Black women scholars themselves. Black scholars must be able to not only support you but also relate to the ideas presented. The final group is the confrontation of Black women scholars with “Eurocentric masculinist political and epistemological requirements.”
She never reflects on her mother’s difficulties as something that could’ve motivated her to become a writer. It’s possible to think that those unpleasant events might have an effect on her thoughts however. Anyone who sees that his or her parents encounter some serious problems because of their weakness in speaking any language would most likely want to avoid any similar problems in his or her life in the future. In addition, Tan’s essay also gives an important message to people who simply choose science or math because they don’t speak English well. She tries to convince people that no one needs to be really perfect in English in order to become a writer.
Norma says this towards the end of the story, when Norma is essentially telling Leroy she wants to be alone. The 14 years alone she’d been alone had helped her deal with the death of her child Randy, and Leroy’s permanent return home has brought back those feelings of their lost child. We can also infer from this that, Norma may have purposely taken bodybuilding, and composition classes In order to avoid Leroy’s constant presence at home. In the story we can clearly see the
However, because racism originates from the home, any outside influences are pointless at the Cowan 2 elementary age. Louise Derman-Sparks claims that, ”Children are color-blind. They are unaware of race and racism. This ideology further assumes that if adults don’t talk with children about ‘it’, children will grow up to be non-prejudice adults” (5). At this age children have not yet developed the ability to “think for themselves” especially when it comes to doing what is right and what is wrong.
By that meaning, when Amy Tan was a kid, she saw how her mother had difficulties in the society because the lack of communication. Therefore, when she grew up, she learned English in the right and correct way and became a successful writer. This is similar to a time when I was in her situation, I was ashamed of my parents broken English wherever they go, I had to speak for them; their limited English reflected the quality of what they had to say. That is because they weren’t able to express their thoughts, the correct way and nobody was taking them seriously, it was because of their broken English language, they were not getting good services
A woman wants to be seen as a woman, and by a woman participating in sports can often deter society’s view of that. For example, in high school I decided to give up basketball, I wanted to focus on my grades more than I had, even though that was it was time consuming, the biggest issue at the time was worrying about how I was viewed. Even though I had a boyfriend, displayed feminine “behavior” and “appearance”- I did not want to be labeled a lesbian because of my ability to play as well as my association with the other players on the team. I was so worried about what others would say and how I would look, I gave up playing organized sports. The girls who played on our basketball team were called gay/lesbians, and often treated like one of the guys vs. a girl with the ability to play good basketball.