ENC 1101 Blog Post #1

Mother Tongue, by Amy Tan

Mother Tongue is a woman trying to understand how properly communicating literature to the target audience is very important. She shows her concern when describing events when her mother interacted with people outside her family. Her anger towards this shows up in the story, although, it is not a prominent tone. The writer seemed excited to tell the success her mother had when communicating to a target audience that understood her. Her mother didn't have any trouble communicating at home and even the writers friends understood a little. I'm pretty sure the writer's mother communicated enough with the writers friends that she knew how to properly communicate to them. My grandmother speaks this style of broken English, except her first language is Spanish. My grandmother knows things that doesn't make sense for her to know. Like some of the Technology industry trends when she lives in backwoods Puerto Rico. You wouldn't know this because of her English. I understand the frustration the writer was going through. The writer changed her tone to positive excitement when she started to describe how she can take this “crutch”, and use it to her advantage in her writing. She ended up writing a book for mothers. She understood her target audience. She was targeting mothers not English 1101 teachers in her book. The author is very passionate about the artistic side of communicating. She wants to preserve the language a person has internally, the language in which you think. She succeeded when her mother said: “So easy to read”.