Read the excerpt from amy tan’s essay “mother tongue.”

i know this for a fact, because when i was growing up, my mother’s “limited” english limited my perception of her. i was ashamed of her english. i believed that her english reflected the quality of what she had to say. that is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect.

what is the purpose of this text?

a) to inform readers based on tan’s childhood experience
b) to persuade readers to speak a different way
c) to inform readers of tan’s mother’s feelings
d) to persuade readers that tan’s mother is intelligent

By telling us the story of her mother and herself, the correct option is A. She is just telling us about how her mother's language made her had a poor perception of English.

In this excerpt, the purpose of this text is:

A) to inform readers based on Tan’s childhood experience. This is the correct option.

Tan , the writer, became a writer in the U.S in spite of the fact she was born from a Chinese family. She was always interested in English but she had to face her mother's broken or limited English. This was when she was a child. She seemed to agree with American natives that her mother's English was limited. Besides,  she thought that if her English was limited , her view of the world was also limited. However, when Tan became an adult and a writer, she changed her view of her mother's English. She got interested in her mother's feelings more than in the form of English she used.

These options are not correct:

B) to persuade readers to speak a different way. Tan tells her own life story. She is narrating a story; she is not persuading the reader.

C) to inform readers of Tan’s mother’s feelings. Tam's feelings towards her mother's English are described.

D) to persuade readers that Tan’s mother is intelligent. Tan 's main purpose is to narrate her life story. She has become a writer , in spite of her Chinese background, and this is her focus.

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