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In “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, Tan shows her readers her argument through the use of logos and pathos. Through personal experiences, Tan makes use of these rhetorical strategies.
Tan uses her firsthand experiences to show the reader in how society views people with broken English and being a second-generation immigrant.
Saleem used emotions, examples and questions to convey how normality is defined by the society and how that anything outside of “normal rules” is seen as bad automatically. His argument was challenging (the normality rules to the society) because people don’t know that individuals who are learning English as a second language initially have an accent because English is not their first language. These people probably raised in different regions, countries that may have consisted of a completely different language with no similarity to English. So these people shouldn’t be judged on their accent but rather celebrated for the fact that they talk more than a language
Amy Tan is a novelist/writer that emphasizes the relationships between Chinese-American women and their immigrant parents, and in her narrative, she emphasizes her exposure to language and her experience with language, when it comes to communicating with her mother. Specifically, Tan highlights how “broken English” can affect someone’s life and their perspective of language.
Saleem’s argument had initially been pointed towards the negativity regarding someone’s passion and background, while it may be about society as a whole
Tan uses personal anecdotes and tells us of her lifelong love of the English writing and its dynamics to make readers believe in her credibility in this matter. The appeals to ethos through the incorporation of personal anecdotes creates an effective argument for why the way one speaks English should not be the deciding factor in how one’s intelligence should be measured, and further how one treats them.
For the argument, Saleem uses personal stories to gain the sympathy of his audience and uses some facts to change the audience’s perspective. Whenever Saleem employs pathos, it is used effectively for the argument of challenging what society deems normal, however the integration of logos was not well utilized since there were unsupported historical facts.
Amy Tan is able to argue that there are many variations of English which is okay and that society should try to help each other come past the differences of the English variations in a positive way.
Hughes examines the aptitude racial understanding has on the conflicted views of Africans American in his community, he shows that his classmates or professor may not understand him, because race has become the boundary defining their social structure. He concludes his poem, by using his position as a student to become an opportunity for his professor to observe how they could relate.
Through the use of anecdotes, animation and genre he discusses the effects on those who aren’t considered a part of “normal society” to challenge the pre-existing view on what is normal. Saleem believes people gravitate towards people they can relate to, which is why there is discrimination against people who don’t look, or act like each other.
Saleem builds his argument using a personal experience as a source of evidence, along with other statements he made. He also included humorous elements that engaged the audience and hypophora when making his points. Coupled with the use of personal experience to build credibility which was effective in making his argument convincing.
Tan begins to build her experience by putting in quotes of her mother’s experience of using the English that she knows best but the English that not a lot of people understand; Amy Tan at the end isn’t ashamed of how society looks down upon on her mothers and tans broken English form of communications she begins to embrace it.
Tan supports her argument by giving us examples of her personal experiences while appealing to emotion through her use of diction which aims to relate to the audience and her credibility is developed through empirical evidence and her background furthering her persuasion of the important issues that a so-called “equal” society still faces.
This essay examines how Tan begins building her credibility with the use of anecdotes, citing significant situations from her life when it comes to her mother, and successfully utilizing emotional appeals.
Through an informal narrative she normalizes “simple” English and targets an audience of not only first generation immigrants but targets those who are not exposed to diversity who have only seen the world in their eyes by informing them on the immigrant lifestyle of hers. Tan also uses the ethos of being a Chinese American in her narrative to make an argument about how her ethnic group is judged and stereotyped using her mothers and her first hand experience.
Tan draws upon specific life experiences to give her different Englishes credence within not only a literary context, but also as an irreplaceable component of her and her family’s humanity.
Saleem uses words to activate emotions with personal stories and stereotypical ideas, thus deploying emotional appeals with the help of vivid descriptions and emotional tone. His story builds his reasoning leaving readers to have a rational response, using indicated meanings and informed opinions, showing readers he fully supports his claim.