WRI-101-A
10/20/17
Prof. Siteman
Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Language is not the creation of only one person, but it is the work of hundreds of generations. Someone said “Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going”. With language, one can describe the past and specify the future. It always the human to communicate his beliefs and emotions. It plays a major role in a personal development. Words are sometimes more than just words because when you look behind them you understand their true meanings. This is one of the main points Amy Tan was trying to make in her work “Mother Tongue”. In this essay, she makes it evident that language has a great impact on