Amy Tan Motivation
Motivation to learn is very important thing for everyone to being with before becoming a professional. English is an international language when once enters a new country they must go through the difficult process of learning the language. From Amy tan’s “Mother tongue” it is evident that language has an effect on our lives. “Mother tongue” by Amy tan tell us how the writer can develop her English well even though she lives in the middle of family who speak broken English. All of it starts from her desired and her motivation to learn, make all of things around her become something that can be learned and take a positive side of it. In her essay she described a lot of problem she had faced to learn English. Tan and her mother faced discrimination because of her lack of proper English. People pretend they cannot understand her or would ignore her all together. They did not take her serious even in the instance of a medical issue. She also faced problem in department stores, at bank, and at restaurant people did not give her good service, or even acted as if they did not hear her. Tan teacher want her to change her major like make her interesting another thing, but tan don’t want she want to become an English writer. In all that situation she felt very ashamed. She noticed that people are very disrespectful with her mother. But she never gives up she raised her
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She also uses pathos emphasize to us, that people who have to learn English language speak a broken language and even though they try and struggle to accomplish speaking, they still have to go through the struggle of being judged, humiliated and misunderstood by those who think they speak the perfect
She also uses pathos emphasize to us, that people who have to learn English language speak a broken language and even though they try and struggle to accomplish speaking, they still have to go through the struggle of being judged, humiliated and misunderstood by those who think they speak the perfect