Her mother’s “broken English” does not reflect her intelligence, however, the people she would like to talk with thought her just had limited ideas because of her “broken English” or “limited English”. She highlights that her mother had realized the limitations of her English impact her opportunities and interactions. When she was fifteen, she had a phone call a person and acted as if she was her mother in order to get more attention, so she had to talk with the stockbroker in perfect English for not sending a check. In the other day, when her mother went to a doctor to ask the result of a CAT scan, the doctors ignore her until author talked to the doctors and then they apologized and solved problems. In her idea, she found out the most of Asian do much better in math than in English, and most of them choose engineering major.
Meera Patel Mr. Bruss Engl 1001/171 September 22, 2011 Rhetorical Analysis of Mother Tongue In “Mother Tongue”, an essay from The Threepenny Review in 1990, Amy Tan explores the various forms of English that people from around the world utilize as they immigrate to the United States and adapt to the American culture. Her mother plays a prominent role in telling of how her perspective on language has transformed. The occurrences with her mother helped her acknowledge not only that language allows one to be a part of a culture, but that it structures and helps define one’s identity in society. Tan’s article conveys reasoning, credibility, and an appeal to emotion because she shares her story and supports it with examples of how others
Both of these writers were molded by their mothers. Each expresses how wonderful their mother really was, contrary to what the outside world may have thought. Tan expressed her feelings by talking about test and comparing English and math and how the language in the family could have affected how she did on test. Tan makes it understandable by letting the audience know that standard tests cannot determine a person's intelligence, she is trying to say how people have different ways of thinking and different types of intelligence, and yet these standard tests only can measure a certain type of intelligence, so it is unfair. The language barrier each had to overcome often
The book I chose for my independent reading project is called “Burned” by Ellen Hopkins. The project I chose to do is a book box because the book I’ve read has a lot of items that correspond to the events and characters in my book. The items I have chosen from my book is a journal, a diaper, a ring, a cell phone, and a pregnancy test. The first item I chose was a journal. The reason I chose this item is because in the book, the main character Pattyn Von Stratten used a journal write down all her troubles because her librarian Ms. Rose told her it would be good for her.
Chapter 15 from the book “I Knew Why the Caged Bird Sings” “Sister Flowers” 07/20/10 The thesis of the essay is that being educated in school books alone doesn’t translate to intelligence. Maya Angelou wrote in the chapter that, Mrs. Flowers has said to Marguerite, “you must be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.” Mrs. Flowers then encouraged Marguerite, “to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.” which means a person needs more than just book smarts to be consider intelligent and to able to use that intelligence to survive in life; a person that has wits though life experiences can be more intelligent than people that just gain knowledge in only school books because the people with wits are more savvy from their social life experiences compare to people that live life educated only though book.
She keeps her eyes on her tea”(108). This quote shows how Uhmma is to scared to say anything to Apa, even though she needs the car more then Apa does. This represents how scared she is of Apa in the beginning of this book. "Uhmma said her hands were her life. But for us, (in reference to her children) she only wished to see our hands holding books.
Due to this, she dropped out of college and went to work. She was working as a typist for a prestigious company when she chose to learn how to work the new word processors (79). This helped her gain the confidence back, and proved that she can overcome the language barrier. Eventually, she became a supervisor in the company and is now teaching others. Madera’s desire to overcome her language barrier caused her to decide to go back to college and take English courses (79).
Her parents spoke only English to their kids even though amongst themselves it was Spanish only. Even though she didn’t know Spanish, her trip to Mexico gave her a new love for her heritage. She came back with a hunger to learn the language she had left at the border so many years ago. As she learns the language she writes this essay to appeal to those other people who, like her, have struggled with their heritage. She wants those who are Latino, but know Spanish as a second language, to step out and be proud of who they are.
Why Chinese Moms Are Superior The document “Why Chinese Moms are Superior” written by Amy Chua depicts the lifestyle of a stereotypical American-Asian family and its success in mastery of many areas of extracurricular, some of which include piano playing and math solving skills. In Amy’s journal, she discusses particularly about her two daughters and how the strict rules that were reinforced helped her daughters become better at certain activities which they are expected by Asian traditions to master. Amy lists off many things her two daughters were forbidden to do, whilst normal children can. For example, Amy’s daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were not allowed to attend a sleepover or get a grade lower than an A. Following these strict prohibitions, it is evident that consequently, Sophia and Louisa will have much time on their hands, which in turn, their mom will use to enforce vigorous studying and practicing schedules, whichever subject or activity they may do.
She’s looking at these people from other countries who are American citizens that do not even speak their native language and trying to figure out why it’s so important that she speaks hers. The way I think she was thinking in this essay is, she was brought to a new country at an early age, her parents wanted the best for her so they only taught her English and being in America at a difficult time when ethnicity mattered, she felt she didn’t fit in and