The second poem ‘’Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’’ is about a mixed race girl who tells us about the gifts she receives from her aunts in Pakistan. She likes these vibrant gifts but feels weird wearing them because they are uncomfortable and she prefers wearing English clothes-‘denim’ and ’corduroy’. She tries to imagine what her homeland (Pakistan) is like for she traveled to England when she was just a few months old. She feels as if she doesn’t fit into both countries and thinks she’s all alone. The poem Half-Caste is about Jhon Agard who is mixed race.
In the article “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan takes the reader on a journey of language through her life. She encounters several different kinds of language usage throughout her life. The realization of this comes only after she becomes a novelist and begins to give speaking engagements, comparing her speeches to groups to the way she talks with her mother and husband and starting to examine the differences. She discovers that the usage of different Englishes doesn’t make people less intelligent, it just makes them different people. Her journey starts with her childhood and progresses through learning her mother’s English, to English in school and concludes with her becoming a writer.
I read the poems number of times, but when I read the title, I would know that the poem has dealing with immigrants. I had the sense from the title what the poem is about. Title makes sense to me a kind of warning for something. After thinking about title before reading the poem, the scene which we studied in Ethnic Identites and Politics class, come to my mind. The scene was same with that when immigrants had first arived to United States and were welcomed in Ellis Island in the poem ‘Ellis Island’.
Silvia said “Mrs.Price it’s for Rachel!!! !”Although it wasn’t. Rachel tried saying something but all she can do was say it in a whisper voice. Mrs.Price still thought it was Rachel’s, during class, Mrs.Price saw Rachel put the sweater at the tip of the desk so she forced Rachel to put it on, when Rachel did put it on, she bursted into tears. Then the airhead named Phyllis Lopez came when it was time for lunch and claimed the sweater from Rachel.
The Geography of Culture in Film The film “Bend it Like Beckham” is a modern film that incorporates an apparent geography of culture perspective. Throughout the film Indian beliefs are portrayed by Jess and her family, as they try to adapt to the British culture. Indian culture is explored in this film through orthodox Sikh religious beliefs, the importance of rituals, cuisine and dress, the traditional role of women, and the respect given to elders. Jess’s parents are always wearing traditional Indian clothing, and Indian music is played throughout the film. It is very apparent from the beginning that Jess and her sister have different ideas of how young women should behave, compared to their parent’s beliefs.
CONJECTURING POSSIBILITIES: READING AND MISREADING TEXTS IN JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE FELICIA BONAPARTE Precisely halfway through the novel (almost to the very letter by a computer count of words), Elizabeth Bennet, the central character of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, is the recipient of a letter. She is forced to read it twice. The letter is from Fitzwilliam Darcy, the man she will eventually marry, but still in the grip of those two flaws from which the novel takes its title, Elizabeth at first misreads it. Only when she reads it again in a different frame of mind is she able to arrive at a closer estimation of the meaning of its words and the intention of its author. In a novel initially written in the epistolary style, it is not, of course, remarkable that letters should be received and sent, and indeed there are quite a few coming and going on its pages.
Thomas Barrett Mr. Nichols English 101 18 September 2013 Reading Analysis: Mother Tongue – Amy Tan You may be wondering how I chose a story with a name like “Mother Tongue”, and to be completely honest, I chose this story by allowing my girlfriend to open my book at a random page, in order for me to have a story that I “care” about. The story follows the dramatic, non-stereotypical life of Amy Tan as a young adult. I mention the “non stereotypical” subject, because she has made it a point in this short story to inform us of her struggle finding her educational path as a young adult. As a young Asian-American, she was pressured by her school to follow a path based in math, but throughout the years, it was apparent to her that she was better suited for a major in English. The bulk of the story explains her experience with different writing styles after her decision to focus everything on English.
n the article “Mother Tongue”, Amy tan emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages unconsciously and that we are categorized by the way we speak. The author is a fictional writer who is “fascinated by language in daily life” and uses language as a daily part of her work as a writer. In paragraphs 2 and 3 she observes experiences that made her realized the different types of "Englishes" she uses. The first time she became aware of this was when giving a talk about her book, The Joy Club, she saw her mother in the audience and she realized that she had been using academic language learned from books, a language she had never used with her mother. The second time she noticed one of her “Englishes” was when walking with her mother and husband, she said “not waste money that way” which for her is an intimate language used only by her family.
When Tan first started writing fiction she thought writing using wittily crafted sentences would show how well she had mastered English. Eventually she realized that when writing that you should envision what type of person is going to be reading your stories, and since Tan was writing about mothers she envisioned her own mother. This when she started writing stories using all the englishes she had grown up
She made a book which was about her writing, her life, and of course her book. She included many English’s that are used till this day in different immigrant households and how some people can understand their type of English and others don’t. Amy Tan describes how growing up her mother’s limited English limited her perception of her. She would sometimes feel ashamed of her English because it reflected upon others in restaurants, banks, or department stores. In Mother Tongue Amy made a great point when she spoke about how when she was fifteen years old her mother would have her call people on the phone and pretend it was her in order to ask and receive the correct information she needed.