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Amy Tan Mother Tongue Essay

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Asian-American writer, Amy Tan, wrote an essay titled “Mother Tongue,” in which she accentuates that every individual speaks and expresses themselves in their own unique manner. Despite the fact that not everyone conveys their thoughts equivalently as others, does not exempt them from being judged and categorized according to their form of speech. In the essay, Tan states and describes the various forms of English that are a part of her daily life. Tan also incorporates her mother and how her form of speaking English affected her in numerous ways, such as making a phone call, or having to depend on her daughter at a doctor’s appointment. Not only did her mother’s style of speaking affect her, but it also affected Tan. In the essay, Tan confessed
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