Amy Tan Research Paper

Amy Tan is a writer who is a first generation american and whose parents are chinese immigrants, she was born on February 19, 1952 in Oakland, California to Daisy and John Tan, who was an electrical engineer and baptist minister. Because she was born and raised in the US, she spoke better english than her parents, especially her mother. Her father and brother Peter died with five months of each other. Language played an extremely huge part of her life and it inspired her writing, her mother was also a big inspiration on her writing, even though her mother disapproved of it and wanted her to do something better in her life. Her mother was a very poor english speaker, and mocked and looked down upon by americans for her poor english. Amy Tan’s

Although Amy found herself ashamed of her mother’s english at a younger age due to others mocking and giving her mother little respect, she has now come to the realization that her mother speaks english her own way and finds that there is nothing wrong with that. Amy Tan herself wonders why there are not Asian Americans in American Literature and emphasizes the fact that she’s an english major so that people can know that asians can not only excel in in math. The target audience of this story are people and family members who are bilingual and might lack confidence in the way they or the way their family member

When those people first come to the U.S., they personally feel difficulty in communicating with others, even if english is taught in their native country. It is difficult for them to speak english and look for friends, they become shy speaking english and are afraid of making mistakes. They become scared of people not understanding them and getting confused by what they say, but eventually they generally adapt to the culture of speaking english. It is hard for them to accept english as a second language, but they become comfortable with it eventually. Tan exceeded in math and science but she did have a hard time getting good grades in english. It is important for Tan to accept her mother’s english because it was a challenge to her but it helped her attain her grasp of proper english, and now she is a writer. Tan used “simple english” because she wanted to share a message to those who did not speak english well, and that message message is that even if you don’t speak english well, your point of view still matters. It is also evident that Tan’s mother helped her understand english in a different way, and Tan uses the language today. She blocked out the criticisms and found it important when her mother approved of her book by saying “so easy to