Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.

Read this excerpt from “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan.

I’ve heard other terms used, "limited English," for example. But they seem just as bad, as if everything is limited, including people’s perceptions of the limited English speaker.

I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s "limited" English limited my perception of her.

How does this detail develop the central idea?

A. It reveals Tan’s reflections on judging her own mother because of her English.

B. It depicts why so many people struggle to learn standard English.

C. It conveys what her mother did to improve her limited English.

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Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this narrative.

Read this excerpt from "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan.

But it wasn’t until 1985 that I finally began to write fiction. And at first I wrote using what I thought to be wittily crafted sentences, sentences that would finally prove I had mastery over the English language. Here’s an example from the first draft of a story that later made its way into The Joy Luck Club, but without this line: “That was my mental quandary in its nascent state.” A terrible line, which I can barely pronounce.

How does this paragraph from "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan help to develop one of the author’s key ideas about language?

A. It shows that using complex words does not necessarily make one's language clearer or more understandable.

B. It shows that even accomplished authors never truly master language .

It gives a description of the author’s current feelings about her mother.

The answer to the first passage would be A because the second paragraph provides he author's reflection about her mother. The answer to passage would be B because even the author had a hard time pronouncing some of the words in her deleted sentence.

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vaduz vaduz · Answer 2 · 2021-10-06T07:48:30+02:00

Part A: The given detail about his mother's "limited English" reveals Tan's reflections on judging her own mother because of her English.

Part B: The given paragraph shows that using complex words does not necessarily make one's language clearer or more understandable.

Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" delves into the difficulties that immigrants faced, especially in their language skills, when coming to America and attempting to live as an American. In the particular story, she focuses on how she had perceived her mother's use and adaptation of the language.

In the first excerpt, Amy Tan delves into how she had 'judged' her mother's usage of the American language.

She admits that her "mother's limited English limited [her] perception of her."

This reveals Tan's reflections on how she judged her own mother because of her "limited" English speaking skills.

Also, the second excerpt focuses on her writing and how she had used complex words thinking it's what makes them better or understandable.

Talking about her first draft where she used a "terrible line", she expressed her realization that using complex words does not necessarily make one's language clearer or more understandable.

Amy Tan talks of how one's "limited" knowledge of the English language led to her own perceptions about her mother. And through trying to show through her work that she's better than her mother, she realized that using complex or difficult English words does not necessarily mean that person is good in English. Thus, the correct answers are options A for both Part A and Part B.

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