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if the prison represents the harsh justice of the Puritan, which it does, then that surprising rosebush represents kindness and forgiveness. Prison is a place of sin, and darkness so the beauty of a wild rose bush growing in such a odd place, symbolizes god's grace.
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The line in the above excerpt from Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" that shows that Tan changes her language depending on the audience is: “The talk was about my writing, my life, and my book, The Joy Luck Club, and it was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room.”
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