The use of cell phones and the internet is increasing among the schoolchildren. Write a letter to the editor of 'Times of India' highlighting the hazardous effects of technology.

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1. How does the idea of Tan’s reconciliation with her mother’s informal English develop over the course of chunk 1?

zvonat [6]

Answer :

In the story "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan, Amy struggles with the idea of code-switching which loosely means using different forms and dialects of English language in different circumstances.

During her growing up years, Amy struggled with the concept of code switching. She feels that she is in two language zones - one is the simple, unclear and broken language of her mother and the other is the more sophisticated use of the language that she learns at school. At times, she is embarrassed of her mother's spoken English, when her friends cannot understand what she wants to convey to them. Amy does not realize that her mother is really proficient in reading the language as she could read many books in English. Her mother only lacks in speaking proficiency as English is not her native language.

Slowly, Amy starts realizing the merits of growing up in an immigrant family and starts appreciating the cultures and traditions of her two worlds.

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The American artist protested that he lacked freedom. In my view, he had too much. He took America for granted. If he had been i

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The logical inference a person can make about the “good lesson” the narrator wants to teach the American artist is:

<u>He would have shown him how there was no freedom in China twenty years ago</u>

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According to the given question, the narrator says that the American artist is making unnecessary protests about having so little freedom.

This shows an irony that he does not appreciate the freedom he enjoys and feels he lacks freedom.

As a result of this, we can see that the logical inference we can make about the good lesson which he wants to teach the American artist is that he would show him how little freedom there was in China twenty years ago and how he enjoys freedom.