Language Is The Tool Of My Trade By Amy Tan
There are people in our lives who have helped us grow. In the summer before freshman year in high school Melinda Sordino was raped at a party. After calling the police she was left without friends or dignity. She isolates herself not knowing what to do. In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda grows in many ways throughout the book.
Amy felt somewhat similar to how Tanya did. In “Mother Tongue” Amy describes how when she was a child she was always “ashamed” and “embarrassed” of the way her mother talked. As she matured she was able to realize that there really is nothing wrong with her “mother’s english”. She even goes as far as using her “mother’s language” to write her book; she wanted to capture “her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts. ”(Mother Tongue
All Good Things Are Wild and Free “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better,” Albert Einstein once said. Nature is about balance and harmony, which is something that is lacking in today’s society. To deal with the pains of life, it is thought that one should connect with nature, and the inseparable bond that is created will allow people to find themselves again. Spending time alone and connecting with one’s environment can teach valuable life lessons, and by escaping into the wilderness, one will be able to free themselves from the troubles that have weighed them down. In Cheryl Strayed’s memoir, Wild, Cheryl uses diction and rhetoric to communicate her message by using imagery, maxims, and mature diction.
John Biewen, the author of Scene on Radio for his series, ‘The Land That Never Has been Yet’ made this series to talk about different historical events that relate to U.S. democracy. Biewen retells events about democracy in the United States in his own insight that they are glories and full of flaws. Episode 2 of this series recounts a specific historical event with the purpose of interpreting how U.S. citizens used their hardship as an opportunity to demand a better life. This historical event is Shay’s rebellions. Throughout the episode, John Biewen uses different rhetorical modes like example, narration, and ethos to broad out his insights of this event.
Rhetorical Precis #4: “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan Amy Tan’s purpose in her article “Mother Tongue” is to show the influence of her mother’s style of english. She also relates this to a more broad topic of the idea that there are many different types of english that people speak that are tailored to whoever they are speaking to. She begins this piece by stating plainly that she is not an english scholar. Instead of decreasing her credibility it actually increases it and paints this piece as a more personal set of observations rather than a bland overview of the entire language.
Tony Scott, the author of, “Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies”. Scott explains how ideologies are used in everyday life by stating that, an ideology is a “system of ideas and beliefs that together constitute a comprehensive worldview.” (Scott, 1) People throughout the world live through ideologies every day on the basis of religion, skin color, and where they are from. Such as the social class they are associated with. Family background is another basis of how an individual sees ideology.
In this quote we see Amy trying to break away from her mother’s expectation of her, and becoming her own person. Her mother was making a game that she enjoy playing about her and all about winning. She was reflecting her goals/dreams upon her daughter, and Amy
Class ESL 5 In the article, ”My English” by Julia Alvarez, the author wrote about her experience as she learn to speak English. Spanish was her mother tongue and struggled to speak English in the early phases. She thought that English was a form of Spanish, as there are different dialects in Spanish. Her parents spoke English when they didn’t want her and her siblings to know what was going on.
Self Discovery is the process of finding oneself and discovering an individual's strength and weaknesses. The journey to Self Discovery is one of the hardest journeys in life. The novel I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, shows the theme by showing how the main character has evolved over the journey of Self Discovery. In the beginning, the main character Ed Kennedy is perceived as someone who has "No real career. No respect in the community.
On the other hand, in Richard Rodriguez “ Public and Private Language”, he talks about how people who are out in public they tend to speak in English and when they are at home they will speak in a language that makes them more comfortable. Both authors struggle in English but in different ways. Tan’s mother has hard time speaking English since it was not her first language.
In her writing, Tan often describes her experiences as the child of Chinese immigrants, growing up in northern California and living in American culture. Tan explains how she has learned to embrace the many Englishes her mother speaks and how her background has also caused her to have different Englishes. While others classify her mother's English as "broken" she finds no fault in it. In Tan's view, just because something is broken does not necessarily mean that it is in need of fixing. In her essay, author Amy Tan addresses the connections between languages and cultures in describing the different Englishes her mother uses.
Writer and novelist Amy Tan in her essay “Mother Tongue”, narrates that speaking “broken” or “fractured” English is not a bad thing. Tan’s purpose is to show the readers her interpretation of different Englishes and what affect her mother had on her. Amy Tan builds a case in “Mother Tongue” that just because some people don’t speak English perfectly, doesn’t mean that they are stupid or ignorant. Tan uses metaphors such as “broken” (8) and “fractured” (8), these words are strong metaphors due to the fact that they give the reader an easy understanding of what Tan is trying to say. Tan uses these metaphors as a way of describing how her mother spoke, while trying not to offend her.
This evidence supports my claim since she explained how Mrs. Tan 's version of English was what taught her to understand the language. Amy also said, "That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world" (Tan, 2006, p. 21). Without Amy learning the descriptive language that her mother used, Amy would be less expressive of herself and not as vocally involved in the
In Lera Boroditsky 's "How Does Our Language Shape the Way We Think" the purpose of the essay is apparent from the second paragraph. "Language is a uniquely human gift central to our experience of being human" she explains, so that the reader understands how language affects ones thoughts and day to day lives (2). Boroditsky 's use of empirical evidence, factual information, organizational structure, understanding and construction upon thoughts that disprove her purpose, and light tone all aide in accomplishing her purpose. Each of these methods help convince the audience that, " Language is central to our experience of being human, and the languages we speak profoundly shapes the way we think, the way we see the world, the way we live our lives" (Boroditsky 10).
She was not capable of understanding jokes or even little phrases that people would say and she felt as if she wasn’t fitting in. While Hoffman and her friends were out on a Saturday night, she tried making a joke of the words that she had learned from her father, and ended up embarrassed. She stated, “I have to form entire sentences before uttering them, otherwise I too easily get lost in the middle” (118). After this experience, she realized that she does not enjoy language as much as she did when she was in Poland. Hoffman dreaded the idea of becoming Americanized, so when her mother claimed “You are becoming English…this hurts me because I know she means I’m becoming cold”
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