Mother Tongue

Amy Tan wrote this short novel about the language of her mother. I found this story very touching because I have seen many people go through something similar to what happened to Amy’s mother. I have seen it through my eyes because of my culture. Being a deaf person is not easy when the hearing test our language, not the American Sign Language one but the English.
Tan wrote it in very detailed method, it made me feel as if I was in the same room when it happened to her mother, the struggle she bearded through. She even mentioned the words that came out of her mother’s mouth.
“Some of the assumptions in an argument will be based on shared values derived from culture and history.” (Pg 95 Lunsford et al.) From American’s perceptive, any language that is not stated correctly is plain wrong. Nothing but wrong. Amy’s mother stated the words correctly; it is just not completed. It is part of the culture, where we come from. In china, broken language did not seem so bad; I mean people could understand each other, which are just what we need. In America, it does not work that way. Americans tend to look at the mistakes we make but in other countries, they do not waste their time on those kind of stuff, they would rather spend their time on cultural values.
We, as the deaf people, went through that experience tons of time, being corrected by the others. When Amy explained that her mother did not get what she needed at the hospital because of her “broken” language but when Amy showed up and spoke the perfect English, her mother got the tests. That is not fair. That shows using arguments from the heart, in the second chapter, page 58 in Lunsford et al. I am positive that Amy feels angry about the way her mother is being treated and she wrote a story to present her argument by putting unfair experiences that her mother went through.
In my opinion, Amy Tan wrote a good story, about her mother’s life and the way she ended her story was very chilling, she wrote what her mother said about the story. It shows that Amy does not look at her mother differently like others do. Only if we could accept everybody for who they are, we would have a lot less arguments in this world.