Question

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

Answer 1

It helps Tan explain the various important roles that language plays in our lives.

Answer 2

The above detail develops the central idea of the excerpt as:

It supports the idea that people judged the author’s mother based on her language.

The statement which best explains how the above paragraph functions in "Mother Tongue" is:

It helps Tan explain the various important roles that language plays in our lives.

Amy Tan's essay “Mother Tongue” is about the difficulties that a child has to face if it grows in a family in which its parents speak 'limited English.' Amy's mother was among such parent who was unable to speak fluent and proper English. It is through the language that the person is judged by others. Amy was brought up by her mother and because of this, her writing style was much influenced by the language spoken at her home. Her mother taught her that a person's perception of the world is influenced by the language spoken at home.