when I first read this story I found it very interesting at first because I have never enjoyed reading at first but as I kept reading I found it really relatable. This made me think more of other things that I can read that will be as relatable as this story was. I have taken the different comments and there were somethings that I could have done to make it better.

 

PG #1 ” I am a writer. and by that definition I am someone who has always loved language. i am fascinated by language in daily life. i spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language– the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual imagine, a complex idea, or a simple truth.”

i fine this quote really interesting because it shows how she’s the writer and she can do whatever she wants and write however  she wants. This is her way of telling us her story. Another thing that catches my eyes is where she places her punctuations and comas, for some people it may look wrong but thats how she writes and tells you her story

PG #1 ” My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.”

I found this quite funny because she has talked to her mother everyday I imagine and then once she’s at this place with her mother and she gives her story in this specific language, her mother is shocked and confused because she has never heard her daughter speak that way.

PG #2 ” And sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker. And I was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken English.

This I found really interesting because they were supposed to received a check and never did. They were giving them more days hoping that they’ll get it but it never happened, so they end up doing exactly what they said they were going to do. They showed up to his manager and complaint. Amy was seating there quiet and embarrassed, while her mother is shouting at the manager in her broken English. When she speaks of her mother talking in ” broken English” it shows that she’s speaking her language and not the manager language in which I assume they are very different.