Mother Tongue by Amy Tan is about a Chinese American woman who is able to speak English as well as a Chinese dialect. She writes about how few people would be able to understand her mother. Amy Tan described the way her mother talked as “limited.” Amy’s mother made her speak to professionals to say what she could not. In this essay she expresses how she wants more Chinese students were excelling in English. This is before she talks about her own writing. Last she closes the essay with a wish that people could catch the hidden substance behind her mother’s “broken English”
I agree with Amy Tan’s choice to write this essay in SWE. In the essay she speaks about the difficulties of speaking English as a traditional Chinese American. The target audience of the essay are Americans who have trouble understanding them and maybe gave up the process. This essay helps them see things from a different viewpoint.
