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Analysis of Amy Tan's Mother Tongue
In her essay Mother Tongue,Amy Tan wrote some anecdotes of her mother and the influence of her mother's limited English on her early development,expressing her understanding of mother tongue. The evidence suggests that there are three messages conveyed in this essay, which is that mother tongue helped her understand her mother step by step,find her culture root and then achieve a balance between American culture and Chine culture,and shape her thinking system.
The first message expresd by Amy Tan is that mother tongue is a door to her mother's
heart,it helped her change her view about her mother. It appeared in the essay Amy Tan disliked and felt ashamed of her mother's English:' I know this for a fact ,becau when I was growing up ,my mother 's "limited" English limited my perception of her .I was ashamed of her English..' But as she grew up and got ud to this limited English,she began to understand her mother,and her limited English,she viewed it as a symbol of intimacy:'It has become our language of intimacy,a different sort of English that relates to family talk,the language I grew up with.' So it is evident that mother tongue helped her understand her mother.
The cond message conveyed in the essay is that mother tongue helped Amy Tan find her culture root and then achieved a balance between American culture and Chine culture. Amy Tan is the cond generation of Chine immigrant.She might have grown up as a pure American if not for the influence of her mother.It is her mother who pasd the Chine root to her.Amy Tan envisioned her mother as her reader when she wrote stories about mothers using the two Englishes she grew up with which are the embodiment of the two cultures.With two cultures perfectly combined ,her book was acce
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The third message given by Amy Tan is that mother tongue shaped her thinking system.When she did word analogies,she would think differently from others becau she tended to inrt her own experience which was of cour influenced by her mother .In addition,her character was also influenced by her mother to a certain degree.It is shown in the essay that Amy Tan's mother had an unyielding character .Bad as her English was,she was very smart and would never allow injustice done to her.This unyielding character was inherited by Amy Tan,as she claimed:'I happen to be rebellious in nature and enjoy the challenge of disproving assumptions made about me.' So it is obvious that mother tongue helped shape the way she saw things,expresd things and made n of the world.
In conclusion,a language can never be just a language,there is always a hidden wealth behind it.This essay ems to tell us that the language ud within family is a great heritage.It is the key to understand each other,it can help people realize their identity,their cultural root,and it can also shape the way people think and make n of the world.谢谢你歌词
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Outline:
I.Introduction
Thesis: The evidence suggests that there are three messages conveyed in this essay, which is that mother tongue helped her understand her mother step by step,find her culture root and then achieve a balance between American culture and Chine culture,and shape her thinking system.
II.Big idea one:She explore her mother and their relationship through her mother's limited English.We can know this by the quotation '' when I was growing up ,my mother's limited English limited my perception of her.I was ashamed of her English. '' '' It has become our language of intimacy, a different sort of English that relates to family talk ,the language I grew up with.''
III.Big idea two:It helped her find her cultural root and then achieved a balance between A
merican culture and Chine culture.She envisioned her mother as her reader when she wrote stories about mothers using all the Englishes she grew up with. IV.Big idea three:It's her mother tongue which helped shape her thinking system.When she was doing word analogies ,she would think in a way different from others'.Her mother's unyielding character also has a great influence on her
V. Conclusion Thesis restated : This essay ems to tell us that the language ud within family is great heritage, it is the key to understand each other, it can help people realize their identity ,their cultural root,it can also shape the way people e things and make n of the world.
