Ibrahim.Kuku

English 110. By.

Jorge Velez

Cover Letter

Dear Aniya.

I know it’s been a long time since we last spoke to each other, but I have been busy with my college work. Since we both finished high school, we both have opened a new chapter of our life, that is: you’ve been in a military boot camp training, and I am experiencing my first year of college. I have looked for ways to communicate with you without boring you, but there seems to be none because people in boot camp are not allowed to have an electronic communication device of any kind with them. But finally, I found out that I can still communicate with you in a letter. Therefore , I constructed a Rhetorical Analysis Essay to keep you and your friends entertained if you wish to share with them.

The following Essay you will be reading is a Rhetorical Analysis Essay I wrote about Amy Tan “mother Tongue”. I have tried my best as possible to make sure that the essay summary won’t bore you, as I hope that you can hear my exact voice as you read. The structure of my writing is organized into three different steps which make up the three different body paragraphs that are included in the essay. Before my writing, I structured the whole Amy Tan personal essay excerpt into three different ideas which I covered in my essay based on paragraphs. Reading my essay will also enlighten you to how Amy Tan uses rhetorical situations, most especially the different choices she chose to use and how she decided to import them.

I know that you must be pretty surprised that I am writing too much. You know that I don’t like writing and reading, as a matter of fact my sleeping pills is reading anything. But I am beginning to acknowledge that writing is fun. Writing gives a sense of knowledge from a broader view. As of now, I feel like writing different papers is improving my critical thinking to a level that I can find and relate to every single line of Amy Tan’s personal essay on a positive level and on a negative standard. 

Rhetorical Analysis Essay For Amy Tan

Amy Tan is a writer who is first generation Chinese American writer because she was born to Chinese immigrants.She wrote about her personal opinion of the English language and how it differs in different countries where English is spoken. Her personal interactions with her mother influenced her personal opinion. In her essay titled “Mother tongue,” Amy Tan discussed the language and literacy challenges that people around the world face. In particular, she discusses her realization of the many different varieties of English she spoke to different people, provides an instructive analysis of her mother’s experience with linguistics discrimination in the United States of America, and, lastly, she discusses how her mother’s level of language and literacy affected her education —which that can also apply to every immigrant child in the world.

Starting from paragraph one to seven (1-7), Amy Tan discusses the point of her life when she became aware of the different language she uses. She was at a large group giving an educational speech when she noticed that her mother was part of the audience, and she was speaking a totally different language that she would not have used at home. Amy Tan’s mother describes her mother’s English oral as broken therefore, using different varieties of vocabularies will surely give troubles for her mother’s understanding. In a public educative conversation, Amy Tan uses words like “The intersection of memory upon imagination” and “There is an aspect of my fiction that relates to thus-and-thus” (paragraph 3) to communicate with people, on the other hand, she switches her sentences into the simplest form while speaking to her mother, and began to use phrase like “Not waste money that way.” (paragraph 4). The switch of language is something that always catches the audience’s attention. To appeal to the target audience which are the Immigrants related families, Amy uses a form of logos that is not obvious because as a daughter of an immigrant, it’s a simple fact that immigrant children switch to their native language or rhyme to the level of their parents language to  communicate whether in public or private.

Amy Tan is crucial in her mother’s journey through linguistic barrier. She starts out with more of her opinion in paragraphs 8 through 11 (8-11), where she mostly talks about her mother’s experience with linguistic discrimination and how they both get around the system. As a little kid with a standard English accent, Amy’s mother depended on Amy to speak on her behalf. On many occasions throughout both their lives, both the daughter and the mother would get into different roles where little kid Amy would have to speak in a strong adult deep voice of any gender on the behalf of her mother, while her mother would be underground telling heer what to say and sometimes yelling herself. Amongst many role plays they had together, the hospital real life experience stands out the most. In the experience, Amy’s mother went to the hospital for a follow up on a possible brain tumor, and when she got there, her mother spoke to them and they did not apologize when the hospital lost her scan result. The hospital “… did not apologize when they said they had lost the CAT… they did not seem to have any sympathy…” (paragraph 11) Therefore, Amy’s mother insisted on the hospital speaking to her daughter, which they did call Amy, and the hospital “assurances the CAT scan would be found, … and apologies for any suffering…” (paragraph 11) caused to the mother. Amy specifically introduced the audience to this unhappy part of her life to provoke an emotional appeal of pathos. The ability of Amy Tan to import an unhappy event in a way that improves the fluency of the content while at the same time appealing to the audience’s understanding is just too perfect because it is a value that provides the audience the same level of clarity as the writer. For everyone, especially the audience, it’s very appealing and sad to see a kid going through an event that can impact their future negatively.

A kid’s future is determined early on as childhood. Amy Tan featured her last argument in paragraph twelve through nineteen (12-19). In her arguments, she logically proved the gloomy impact of her mother’s lack of standard English on her education. Amy Tan reveals that her mother language limits her ability to perform better in I.Q. test, SAT test e.t.c. her mother’s lack of standard English obstructs her ability to think, which ultimately limits her “possibilities in life as well.” (paragraph 12). Meanwhile, she prefers math and science tests because there is an answer that is not based on opinion, judgemental, and personal experience. Amy Tan said in her writing “But I have noticed in surveys – in fact, just last week-that Asian students, as a whole, always do significantly better on math achievement tests than in English.” (paragraph 15).Amy Tan uses a simple obvious logical fact to achieve her purpose of communicating to her audience. As a writer, the qualification of being an expert in writing is a value that the readers find convincing enough to attract them to a book, but also using rhetorical appeal of logical fact is something that the author utilizes to attract the reader’s mind. 

In conclusion, Amy Tan did not just utilize the use of different rhetorical devices but also used a form of Autorial structure to organize her personal experience into an essay, in which she employs to further discuss her issue of becoming aware of the various English dialects she uses when speaking to other people, Explaining how her mother was discriminated against because of her linguistic background in the United States of America, and talking on how her mother’s language and reading skills affected her schooling, which is relevant to all immigrant children around the world.