English writing plan

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Mother Tongue

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Context of the Amy Tan’s ‘Mother Tongue’, her style, purpose, and tone

The immediate context of the text is the author's experience upon being nurtured by a mother who faced the great challenge of communicating in fluent English; her mother's weakness made the author manifest various feelings that affected her comfortability. The text aims at implicating the need to impress all people besides their disadvantages based on the relevant society’s provisions. Amy's tone in the article tends to be remorseful, defensive, and angry. She deploys the aspect of style in the article significantly; for instance, she interacts with her audience directly; “You should know that my mother’s expressive command of the English language belies how much she really understands” (Tan, 2003 p.299).

How will a keen analysis of the Amy Tan’s claim and the structure of the compilation help in learning more about the text?

Amy Tan’s purpose of advocating for acceptance of individuals who have the challenge of being affected by their mother tongues as her mother is presented effectively in the text by her tone of defensiveness. Her approach of engaging her audience directly shows her strong desire to express the need to accept victims of mother tongue in society.

Is the author’s writing effective in achieving their purpose?

Amy Tan's work significantly proves to be effective enough in expressing the need to accommodate those affected by their mother tongue, especially when in a different society. She has perfected this by showing the troubles that her mother underwent due to her ‘broken English’ and how that condition affected her emotionally (Tan, 2003 p.36)

Reference

Tongue, M. (2003). Amy Tan. The World is a Text: Writing, Reading, and Thinking about Culture and Its Contexts, 291.