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A 3 page paper which compares the way in which Amy Tan writes in “Mother Tongue” and Min-zhan Lu writes in “From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle.” No additional sources cited.
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given the stories of language in the lives of two Asian women. They are writers/teachers and their experiences with the language are similar and different at the same time. In
these essays they present themselves as very powerful writers, but also present us with images of a more poetic sense and deeper sense of language. The following paper compares the
manner in which the two authors write. Amy Tan and Min-zhan Lu Amy Tan begins her work with a relatively simple use of the language that seems to introduce
us to a simplicity as well as complexity in understanding when she states, "I am not a scholar of English or literature....I am a writer" (Tan). In this we are
presented with a very straightforward presentation that becomes more complex in its use of language, and at times becomes even more simple and for many perhaps distorted. With Lus work
the opening is also very simple and quite personal as she states, "My mother withdrew into silence two months before she died" (Lu). In this we are presented with more
of a poetic image, or an intimate image, than that presented by Tan, but the two are obviously rather simple and personal when considering the manner in which they are
written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with carefully wrought grammatical phrases, burdened, it suddenly seemed to
me, with nominalized forms, past perfect tenses, conditional phrases" (Tan). In this we are presented with the use of language in the manner in which Tan was taught in school
and when speaking it in front of her mother she sees it as far more complex than, perhaps, it needs to be. In Lus work we see a similar break
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