Rhetorical Analysis On Amy Tan

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Amy Tan was giving a speech about her book to a large audience, when the realization that her mother was in the audience dawned on her. Amy feels as if her whole talk is wrong as she makes this realization because she was using large and complicated words, words that Amy’s mother may have never heard her say before during such a long speech. As Amy thinks about her and her mother’s English, she relishes the fact that she can switch from one type of English to another. Amy would often use a more broken style of English around her mother, and even would use it around her husband, so often that he even began to pick some of it up. However, Amy admits that she used to be ashamed of her mother’s limited English, and that during Amy’s childhood,
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