"Mother Tongue," explains that different types of English affect someone's response and attitude. Because Tan wrote this essay about her mother, she mainly describes the responses her mother gets with her broken English. Tan' s purpose is to show how broken English speakers are dissuaded from perfecting it and h owe they are looked down up in society.
She adopts an informative tone in order to show society h w badly broken English speakers are treated. Tan introduces her essay by proposing that different speaking patterns are SSH own with different people. Her use of inductive reasoning is found through her anecdote SE with her mom's English skills.
She uses inductive reasonin
...g in order to show how her mother speaks English, how her husband speaks English, and how she herself, speaks English with he r mom and society.
Her use of inductive reasoning proves her point that different people use dif reinforces of language. Tan continues her essay by explaining that broken English speakers are looked d down upon in society. She helps prove her claim of mistreatment by using enumerate CIO constantly throughout her essay.
She uses enumeration in order to emphasize the mister tamest her mother received and show the things she had to do to finally get decent service. Her u SE of enumeration results in sympathy for Amy Tan's mother and other people who don't speak good English.
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