The narrative story of Amy Tan describes a young childs struggle with her immigrant background. The narrator's mother's english was described as fractured, meaning she would mispronounce words and use incomplete sentences. This ultimately effected the narrator because she would have to go on the phone for her mother and pretend to be her. She would also feel emberassed when her mother was talking to someone, because they somtimes wouldn't understand or pretend not to hear her. Throughout the stroy the narrator is constantly fighting the feeling of emberassment caused by her mother's fractured english.
This stroy ties into the theme Social Justice because it describes the struggle for immigrants without proper english. The story's descriptions about the reactions of the listeners when they were trying to understand what the mother was saying were very negative, they made it clear that if you are someone who can't speak english correctly you will be treated differently. You won't have as much charisma.
This stroy ties into the theme Social Justice because it describes the struggle for immigrants without proper english. The story's descriptions about the reactions of the listeners when they were trying to understand what the mother was saying were very negative, they made it clear that if you are someone who can't speak english correctly you will be treated differently. You won't have as much charisma.
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